Henry Vermaak schrieb: > 2009/10/11 "Vinzent Höfler" <jellyfish.softw...@gmx.net>: >> Henry Vermaak <henry.verm...@gmail.com>: >> >>> Thanks for the explanation, I was under the impression that arrays in >>> Pascal were similar to C. How do you explain the "automatic" >>> dereferencing with a pointer to an array that Jürgen is talking about? >> Those are dynamic arrays, IOW pointers disguised as arrays. This is part of >> the problem, if not the problem itself. > > No, it happens with static arrays, if you set pia := @ia, ia[x] and > pia[x] will give you the same result (in delphi mode, at least).
It's simply more readable and a shortcut. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal