[fpc-pascal] named parameter
Ryan Joseph
ryan at thealchemistguild.com
Sat May 27 12:17:40 CEST 2017
> On May 27, 2017, at 5:13 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.fpc-pascal at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
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> someFunction(TPoint(X:0.0; Y:0.0));
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> Pascal purists would probably object to that style, since what it's effectively doing is passing the parameters as an explicit list.
I mentioned this form of “default constructor" as a sorely missing feature in FPC a couple weeks ago. Making redundant constructors for records constantly is pretty silly. If I could figure out the compiler code I would add this myself since it’s probably one of the easier things to implement.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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