Am Thursday 30 August 2012 18:07:13 schrieb Jonas Maebe: > On 30 Aug 2012, at 17:14, Rainer Stratmann wrote: > > TP for DOS at > > least supports a function result (as I remember) thus it is not Delphi > > only as you mention. > > Turbo Pascal does not support the "result" alias for the function result. > > > What's wrong with such a message that is easy to implement and will help > > beginners to freepascal a lot? > > We give such a message when someone tries to define a "class" type without > having ObjFPC/Delphi mode activated. That is a message that is always > correct, because > > type > tsomething = class > end; > > does not and cannot have any other meaning in another compilation mode. As > has been pointed out by other people, that is not true for random > occurrences of the word "result" in the source code.
Even then the message "are you in the right syntax-mode? only ObjFPC (-MObjfpc) or Delphi (-Mdelphi) mode supports a function result" can not be wrong. Added to this that the occurence of the identifier "result" not using in combination with a function result is very unlikely. I think 99,99% has to do with the scenario that I described. And maximum in one of a thousand cases it is the scenario that has been pointed out above. > > Jonas > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
