Since issue http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13256 was marked resolved,
I can not add comments, so I'd like to discuss it here.
Original report claimed that code
const c: SomeType = value;
var y: t = c;
begin
end.
Works for primitive types, but not the complex ones.
This was an error on
On 01 Mar 2009, at 15:29, Alexander Klenin wrote:
I think this is quite reasonable to expect this to work.
The writeability of constants is IMNSHO just an ugly leftover from
Delphi history,
and should be disabled in _both_ delphi and objfpc modes:
{$IFDEF FPC}{$MODE DELPHI}{$ENDIF}
const x:
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 00:47, Jonas Maebe jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be wrote:
Is rejected by Delphi, but compiled by FPC, which is a compatibility
bug in itself.
This depends on a mode switch. Use {$j-} to turn off the ability to write to
typed constants. Maybe it's off by default in your
On 01 Mar 2009, at 15:58, Alexander Klenin wrote:
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 00:47, Jonas Maebe
jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be wrote:
This depends on a mode switch. Use {$j-} to turn off the ability to
write to
typed constants. Maybe it's off by default in your version of Delphi.
I know. I
Op Mon, 2 Mar 2009, schreef Alexander Klenin:
Since issue http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13256 was marked resolved,
I think this is quite reasonable to expect this to work.
The writeability of constants is IMNSHO just an ugly leftover from
Delphi history,
and should be disabled in
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 03:16, Daniël Mantione
daniel.manti...@freepascal.org wrote:
Making typed constants writeable has been a disputed feature of the Borland
dialect, I agree with that, but fact of the matter is they are writeable and
thus cannot form a constant expression. The fact that
Op Mon, 2 Mar 2009, schreef Alexander Klenin:
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 03:16, Daniël Mantione
daniel.manti...@freepascal.org wrote:
Making typed constants writeable has been a disputed feature of the Borland
dialect, I agree with that, but fact of the matter is they are writeable and
thus
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 07:34, Daniël Mantione
daniel.manti...@freepascal.org wrote:
This is a debate that has been held quite a few times :) If you look at
typed consts from the point of view what a mathematical constant is, yes,
it's completely absurd that you can write to them.
From
