In our previous episode, Sven Barth said: > > is more work than > > > > VarName:='counter'; > > > > So what's the point ? > > The best argument for such a feature is that the name is checked by the > compiler. > If I change the declaration of the variable the compiler will complain in > the first case, but not in the second (let's assume that we don't need to > care about some kind of backwards compatibilty, just because we wrote the > identifiers to a file in different versions of the application were the > variable had different names).
The first or the second invocation of sendinteger ? :-) sendinteger(nameofvar(var1),var2); is an easily made mistake (copy and paste like). So I have some doubts about this argument. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
