Am Thursday 30 August 2012 15:33:36 schrieb Reinier Olislagers: > On 30-8-2012 15:08, Rainer Stratmann wrote: > > Am Thursday 30 August 2012 14:39:06 schrieb leledumbo: > >> Since this behavior is documented, one should read the documentation > >> first: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse76.html > > > > There is much documentation spread over many servers. > > I don't understand that remark: Leledumbo is referring to correct spot > in the official FPC documentation.
But a beginner has to read many documents. Wouldn't it be better to come to a solution (compiled program) as fast as possible to stay motivated? > > When someone wants to compile a TurboPascal or Delphi program with > > freepascal. Then he already knows that result is a function result, but > > freepascal gives an error about this. > > Perhaps if in Lazarus he could just press F1 when on the result > identifier[1]. If in the fpc IDE, presumably there's context sensitive > help. That would work for other similar problems, too. I had this thing with lazarus but was not aware of a fast help about this. > If the user doesn't use an IDE then yes, I think he should go through > the documentation manually. A short message would help the user faster than searching for the right document. Even more a beginner could turn away because of this behaviour and say freepascal is not mature if it does not support a function result. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
