On 22 Nov 2012, at 02:00, Kenneth Cochran wrote:
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<gra...@geldenhuys.co.uk>wrote:
That is an incorrect assumptions. The compiler will happily accept
both
types without needing typecasting.
I stand corrected. I assumed it behaved the same as Delphi in this
respect.
It doesn't, not even when Delphi mode is enabled.
Delphi behaves like FPC, at least Kylix 3 does. Afaik the only use for
"type newstring = type string;" is so that you can declare overloaded
routines that are differentiated based on those two types.
Jonas
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