[fpc-pascal] Power operator fails in ordinal range definition

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Thu Nov 14 14:11:53 CET 2024


Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am
Do., 14. Nov. 2024, 08:03:

> On Nov 14, 2024 at 1:53:17 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <
> fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>> The **-operator is not *implemented* by the compiler. It's provided
>> through the Math unit. Thus you can't use it in constant declarations.
>>
>
> Why is that?
>

Because it wasn't deemed necessary that the compiler itself provides this
operator.

That means you can do powers in types or constants right?
>

I assume you mean "can't". In that case, yes, that is not possible.

Regards,
Sven

>
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