On Sat, 26 Aug 2017, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
Am 26.08.2017 07:25 schrieb <nore...@z505.com>:
What about the BOOL issue..
We know that Boolean in fpc/delphi is not compatible with a C bool
But it gets worse than that: even fpc/delphi's bool is not always
compatible (but is sometimes).
For example:
http://blog.delphi-jedi.net/2008/09/25/bool-boolean-and-integer/
When one must use Integers to do boolean related programming tasks, it
makes me want to quit programming ;)
In FPC you can use the types Boolean16, Boolean32 and Boolean64 to get a
type that behaves like Boolean, but has a different size.
Sorry for being naive. Why not simply use a boolean ?
I thought all this BOOL mess was just meant to be able to interface with C
libs slightly easier.
Instead of
If (SomeCfunction()<>0) then
DoSomethingStupid;
it allows you to write - in appropriate cases - the following:
if (SomeCfunction()) then
DoSomethingStupid;
I don't think we should promote BOOL and friends too much.
They are a convenience (which IMHO should not have been introduced in the first place).
Promoting them to first-class Pascal citizens is IMHO a bad idea.
Michael.
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