In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: > > BTW: I actually learnt something new now. I never new you could have a > > property outside a class. I can't say that in the many years I have > > been > > programming with object pascal that I have ever seen properties used > > as a > > global variable. Umm? > > It's an FPC-specific extension. It's mainly used to implement the > "port" construct from Turbo Pascal in the ports unit for Dos and Linux.
Baseunix.Errno is maybe a more used example: function fpgeterrno:longint; external name 'FPC_SYS_GETERRNO'; procedure fpseterrno(err:longint); external name 'FPC_SYS_SETERRNO'; property errno : cint read fpgeterrno write fpseterrno; _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
