On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Juha Manninen <juha.mannine...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
Delphi would present this problem "only" in some situations (which is worse), and it didn't even show a warning when the result is a string :-/ -Flávio _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
