In our previous episode, Martok said: > Regardless of whether there may be some argument for this language change, I'm > still a firm believer in "don't surprise the user". There is literally no > precedent that this simplification has ever been done in any Pascal compiler > (quite the contrary), and there is no written hint that FPC does it either. > Basically, if people with some 30-ish years of experience (and always keeping > up > with current language extensions) write that, I think we may have an issue > here:
Personally I think the input validation angle to justify checking enums is dragged-by-the-hairs. Input validation should be done at the bounderies of the system, not everywhere. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel