[fpc-pascal] Feature announcement: Dynamic array extensions

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Sun Jun 3 18:49:14 CEST 2018


In our previous episode, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal said:
> > not exist, if FreePascal had gone another direction like PL/1, for
> > example,
> > where the string concatenation operator is ||
> > (and DB2, and - probably - other SQL dialects).
> >
> 
> FPC inherited the +-operator for concatenation from the base language:
> Pascal. So there simply was no other route to take (not that anyone would
> have thought to take a different route).

Well, + is also addition in pascal. It depends on what is considered more
important, the fact that array of integer has a base type that suppers
adding, or the simularity with strings(that are also dynamic array like)
that uses it for concat.



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