[fpc-pascal] Procedural parameters

Adriaan van Os adriaan at adriaan.biz
Sun Dec 15 07:13:51 CET 2024


Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
> 
> On Dec 15, 2024 at 12:21:29 PM, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal 
> <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org 
> <mailto:fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>> wrote:
>> You mean the original pascal only allowed function declarations to be
>> parameter types?
>>
>> Yes. And it is still true in the ISO 7185 Pascal standard.
> 
> That doesn’t make any more sense than only allowing them as type 
> declarations. I guess you couldn’t stored function pointers on variables 
> or record fields then? Seems strange they would not support that.

Storing function pointers on variables or record fields is a Turbo Pascal invention too.

Regards,

Adriaan van Os



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