[fpc-pascal] bug or feature?

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Sat Feb 12 17:47:34 CET 2022



On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Jonas Maebe via fpc-pascal wrote:

> On 12/02/2022 17:36, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> PS. Just tested, the compiler accepts both... Amazing, I never thought this
>> would be possible. I'd better update the docs :-)
>
> I wouldn't consider this to be working by design, but rather because of 
> implementation limitations.

Why do you consider it a limitation ?

Because the compiler currently has no way to distinguish the types when resolving the
name "T" (as used in my example)?

Then it is a strange coincidence that Delphi has it too :-)

Michael.


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