On 22.11.2011 12:42, Marco van de Voort wrote:
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).
I'm a huge fan of synchron edit in Lazarus :P
So I have some doubts about this argument.
The Pros are very few, I admit. Another reason (the other mailed as an
answer to one of Martin's mails) why this is a low priority feature for
me and I'll implement other "gems" first ;)
Regards,
Sven
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