[fpc-pascal] fpc procedure modifier []

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 14:12:18 +0100
> Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> So, how will FPC distinguish the two []?
>> 
>> 
>> The only idea I have is to check whether the first identifier is a
>> attribute and if not handle it as a modifier (or if a comma is following
>> the first identifier).
>
> pparser can't do that.
>
> And I fear that this heuristic will lead to confusing error messages. I
> hope there is a better way.
>
> Delphi does not support it. It thinks it is an undefined attribute. So
> IMO FPC's [] modifier should be disabled in mode delphi+delphiunicode.
> So the problem will only happen in mode objfpc or when the user
> enable the modeswitch prefixedattributes.

I think that prefixedattributes should simply disable the use of proc
modifier []. The probability of having code that needs both is almost zero,
the [] syntax is very old and almost not used.

Mode Delphi(Unicode) enables prefixedattributes, all other modes need an
explicit modeswitch to enable it.

Let's keep it clear, simple and unambiguous.

Michael.