[fpc-pascal] Class field property access

[Tomas Hajny]

On 2019-06-03 16:01, Ryan Joseph wrote:
> I found a restriction in properties which is a little disappointing. I
> get there’s probably some objective of safety but Pascal is a direct
> memory access language so I don’t understand why properties have this
> unique restriction when I could do the same thing using functions
> (pointers can’t be dereferenced in properties either). Shouldn’t I as
> the programmer get to decide whether the property is safe or not based
> upon when I call it?
> 
> type
>   TB = class
>     x: integer;
>   end;
> 
> type
>   TA = class
>     private
>       b: TB;
>     public
>       property x: integer read b.x;	// ERROR: Must be a record/object 
> type
>   end;

Which mode / which FPC version? It compiles without complaints for me 
with FPC 3.0.4 and either -Mobjfpc or -Mdelphi (after adding 'begin 
end.' to the end to make it a valid / compilable "program".

Tomas