[fpc-pascal] Info about the -Mdelphi mode

Marco van de Voort fpc at pascalprogramming.org
Sat Apr 25 19:57:21 CEST 2026


Op 26-4-2026 om 01:46 schreef Warren Postma via fpc-pascal:
> Every modern language has inline variabler declarations because it was 
> always a thing in the one most of us care about.

Opinion based on extrapolating languages that directly or indirectly 
inherit from eachother.

> Not having inline variables means that our strongly typed language 
> Pascal doesn't have as precise a scoping of variables as possible, 
> preventing read access before initialization, which is a major smell 
> in the pascal language and compiler designs.

Contrary to original C , we can now use more than 32kb for compilers now 
and have static analysis to prevent this, should it be necessary.




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