On 02/01/19 17:05, Benito van der Zander wrote:
1) Dynamic arrays are initialised with nil, but that is an
implementation detail (required by the fact that they are reference
counted: if they would contain random data, that would cause crashes)
If there ever is a fpc version that does not initialize them with nil,
then it could show a warning. Till then it is pointless.
The compiler cannot distinguish between the following cases:
* the programmer knows the compiler initialises it with empty/nil, and
in this particular case that happens to be the exact value that is wanted
* the programmer forgot to initialise the variable with an initial value
They are separate hints/warnings so that they can be disabled separately
by programmers who know they will always want an empty string/array as
initial value in case of managed types.
Jonas
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