On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, David Mears wrote:
> is this bit of syntactic weirdness a fpc element, or from delphi. I've > largely been away from pascal since the early 90s, mostly only using it to > write dos-y non-object-y utilities, for which it excels. > typed constants seem to basically to be like the static keyword from c.. but > not a var modifier.. It just seems it should be a modifier for var. such as > var st:string static;.. since.. constant is usually pretty wrapped up in the > meaning of "not changing." and that it has a constant, initialized, reserved > place in memory is.. well.. abstract. Especially since you can initialize > your variables now, then the only thing that makes it special is that it is a > global variable with a local scope. > > I'm not the sort who thinks pascal should be C, because I hate having to work > with C or it's work likes. I just think that being able to call something > constant and change it muggles the syntactic clarity of the language, which is > otherwise rather good. Initialized constants are deprecated, and should be replaced by initialized variables, as in Delphi: Var A : String = 'Some string'; "Real" constants (in the sense of 'not changing') do not need to be typed in the first place so Const A = 'Some String'; Will do just fine. You now have both possibilities and they each have clear and unambiguous meaning. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal