Jonas Maebe wrote: > > On 7 sep 2006, at 08:59, Daniël Mantione wrote: > >>> Afaik only in case of reading a boolean everything <> 0 is true (for >>> compatibility with other languages). In case of writing, Pascal (and >>> FPC in >>> particular) always stores a 1 for true and 0 for false, since boolean is >>> defined as an enum with values (false, true) >> >> Well, the last minute change in 2.0.4 by Florian was needed because >> constructors return non-1 true cases, i.e.: >> >> if constructor_call then >> >> ... results actuall a pointer to the object, or nil. > > Even though it's a dirty construct by Borland, it does not contradict > what I wrote.
A constructor returns a qword/longbool which isn't defined as enumeration. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
