Am 28.04.2017 09:23 schrieb "Ryan Joseph" <r...@thealchemistguild.com>:
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> > On Apr 28, 2017, at 1:06 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
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> > No, I mean
> >
> > rec := (x + y) * 2;
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> > The compiler has to differentiate these two.
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> I see. It’s the parenthesis that are problematic. I guess the solution
would be curly brackets:
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> rec := {x: 1; y: 2; z: 1}Curly brackets are comments! > or some magic function like writeln: > > rec := TMyRec(x: 1; y: 2; z: 1) That could be a possibility as the compiler could then correctly handle the field names, however it would have an ambiguity with typecasts until the colon. Though that would be solvable... > rec := @(x: 1; y: 2; z: 1) @ would be nonsense as that would denote a pointer. > etc… > > Anyway it could be achieved that would be nice to have a built in constructor for records on the language level. > Well, feel free to develop a patch, maybe it'll be accepted. I have other fish to fry in the meantime. Regards, Sven
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