> On Apr 13, 2018, at 3:29 PM, Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl> wrote:
>
> Because it is very limited and forces the initialization at the place of
> declaration, which is rare if not zero.
When using other languages I use it often. The fact that all other modern
languages I’m aware of support it says something also (even c++!). Granted 0 is
most common it’s still very helpful to init at time of declaration because you
were just going to do it yourself anyways at the start of the scope. It’s such
a common pattern but Pascal is out dated on this front. Records don’t have
default constructors also like other modern languages so they need some work
in my opinion.
{$DEFINE TMyRecord_Default := (i: 1; s: 'foo’)} is an interesting idea but
unfortunately it’s a bit of a hack.
>
> p.s. does r:=default(r); do anything ? Or does that only work in generics?
I didn’t know Default worked with all types and replaces the more verbose
FillChar call. That’s a step in the right direction.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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