[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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