On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 2013-03-04 20:33, Howard Page-Clark wrote:
You can simulate this in FPC as well as TP by using a local typed
constant. e.g.
function GetValue: integer;
const value: integer = 0;
begin
Inc(value);
Result:= value;
end;
I've seen this before, and always been baffled by this. How can you
increment a "constant"? If you can, it is then a variable, no?
A leftover from the TP days.
A typed constant acts as an initialized variable.
You can disable this construct with:
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progsu42.html
Michael.
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