Maybe there's no technical reason it doesn't work... it's just set to not work to make it compatible with other pascal programs?
-----Original Message----- From: fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org> On Behalf Of Mattias Gaertner via fpc-pascal Sent: Monday, September 9, 2019 1:32 PM To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Cc: Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaert...@netcologne.de> Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Illegal counter variable? On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 19:27:49 +0200 Bart <bartjun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 4:54 PM Jonas Maebe <jo...@freepascal.org> > wrote: > > > "var i : longint = 0;" is internally handled using the same code > > path as "const i : longint = 0", and typed constants cannot be used > > as counter variables. This is indeed probably a bug. > > D7 does not allow this for global variables: "for loop variables must > be simple local variables". > In D7 you cannot initialize a local variable, so I cannot test that > scenario. Someone with a more recent Delphi should check if this > sysnatx is allowed. Same in 10.3. Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
