[fpc-pascal] compiler option for $J directive

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Tue Oct 10 11:21:45 CEST 2017


Am 10.10.2017 08:49 schrieb <pascalX at piments.com>:
> BTW why would anyone want
> {$WRITEABLECONST ON}
>
> writable constants is an oxymoron and goes against the whole philosophy
of strict types which is central to Pascal.

They were used mainly back at TP times to have procedure local static
variables (cause that is how they behave as inside procedures).

Regards,
Sven
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