On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:21 PM, José Mejuto <joshy...@gmail.com> wrote: > What's the expected output of this code ? > > function TheA(): string; > begin > Result:=Result+'A'; > end; > > writeln(TheA()); > > I thought that when the result type is an automated one its value gets > initialized... Maybe I'm wrong...
Yes you are wrong. It is very illogical because a local string variable is initialized to be empty but the return value is not. Delphi has the same problem. I once made even a report about it: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20907 Regards, Juha _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal