On 30 Oct 2013, at 12:50, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Jonas Maebe wrote:
It can, as demonstrated by the example that started this thread.
The type identifier may not be visible, but entities that have this
type can be. Just like in the unit example.
You must admit that in the case of a function result type, that is a
bit awkward, since you will never be able to declare a properly
typed variable to hold the function result. In the case of a record
or class type, that is particularly awkward since you will be forced
to use a "with" to access the various fields.
Absolutely, but it's always been valid in TP/Delphi/FPC-style Pascal
and introducing a special rule would make the language less orthogonal.
Jonas
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