On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Ryan Joseph <r...@thealchemistguild.com> wrote:
> But how do you assign to “something" then if you don’t know the type? The > param is “var” so shouldn’t I be able to assign to the param and return it > back to the caller? In your example how could I return 5 to “i” inside > GetSomething? > > Treat is as a pointer (it's an implicit pointer anyway) function GetSomething (var something): boolean var pi: PInteger; begin pi:=@something; GetSomething:=pi^>=5; end; or an old-school way using "absolute". function GetSomething (var something): boolean; var i: Integer absolute something; begin GetSomething:=i>=5; end; var i : integer; begin i:=3; writeln(GetSomething(i)); end. check out "anysort" function http://wiki.freepascal.org/Array_sort It's using untyped parameter to perform a sort on an arbitrary type array thanks, Dmitry
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