On Sun, 5 Feb 2017, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
Am 2017-02-05 um 20:26 schrieb Sven Barth:
> Is that a valid identifier?
> Here
> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Identifiers
> it says:
> Rules for identifiers:
> Must begin with a letter from the English alphabet or an underscore (_).
> Can be followed by alphanumeric characters (alphabetic characters and
numerals), or the underscore (_).
> May not contain special characters, such as:
>
> ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) + ` - = { } [ ] : " ; ' < > ? , . / | \
http://freepascal.org/docs-html/current/ref/refse4.html#x16-150001.4
Strange!
Why was it added to use reserved words as an identifier?
What is the use of that?
For example:
If you import a SOAP webservice or REST API, often reserved words are used
in the names of arguments or properties.
This trick allows to use them as-is in the pascal proxy classes.
Michael.
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