Vinzent Höfler schrieb: > Florian Klaempfl <flor...@freepascal.org>: > >> Out is not made to solve such problems but plainly to work with >> COM/Corba. > > Really? Well, that's not what the FPC manual says:
And? Is there a different reason written? And even if it is: documentation writer know less than implementors :) > > -- 8< -- > The purpose of an out parameter is to pass values back to the calling > routine: The variable is passed by reference. The initial value of the > parameter on function entry is discarded, and should not be used. > > If a variable must be used to pass a value to a function and retrieve data > from the function, then a variable parameter must be used. If only a value > must be retrieved, a out parameter can be used. > -- 8< -- > > So having the semantic difference between "var" and "out" and thus the > differentiation between uninitialized and (pre)initialized parameters is > merely a random achievement? > > > Vinzent. > _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
