> On Apr 8, 2021, at 3:53 PM, Sven Barth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 1. you should not blindly assume that the def is a stringdef if it's not an
> arraydef; at least use an internalerror to protect against problems here
> 2. if it's really a stringdef and the return type is st_shortstring you
> should indeed use SHORTSTRING (it's only constant strings which are a bit
> more, let's say "dynamic")
> 3. do an internalerror for st_longstring as those are currently not
> implemented
> 4. due to 2. you can move the case of newtype=nil into the if-clause with the
> arraydef
>
> Otherwise, yes, the check for the string type is correct.
I didn't know how constant strings we identified until just now so I can
correct that. Can we make "(def.typ=arraydef) and (ado_isconststring in
tarraydef(def).arrayoptions)" into a function in defutils.pas and call it
is_constant_string? That would have been easily visible to me and lead me in
the right direction from the start. I also had problems with array literals
like [1,2,3] which there is no clear utility function for and prompted me to
make is_array_literal() which is private right now (and probably not very
correct in design). Moving that to a public space would be sensible also I
think.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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