Sven Barth to Anton Shepelev:
>>According to Borland's official language guide to
>>Turbo Pascal 7.0,
>>
>> To be used as procedural values, procedures and
>> functions must be declared with a 'far' direc-
>> tive or compiled in the '{$F+}' state.
>>
>>whereas Free Pascal in -Mtp seems to accept any
>>non-system procedure or function as a value of a
>>procedural type. Is it an instance of TP incom-
>>patibilty or am I missing something?
>
>That would probably be only relevant on i8086. All
>the other targets don't have the distinction in
>"near" and "far", so it's not necessary to artifi-
>cially restrict everything.
But this is from the Language guide -- a document
that descrbes the language in a platform-agnostic
way, except when the contrary is explicitly inidi-
cated. Where Turbo Pascal did not accept a proce-
dure without the 'far' modifier, one should expect
Free Pascal to reject it also in 'TP' mode.
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