Op 2019-04-13 om 09:47 schreef Sven Barth via fpc-pascal:
I think the same as when I read the suggestion for an inout
variant of
VAR. Move this out of the language syntax, and make it directives or
attribute like syntax (like we will need to get anyway for const ref).
Im definitely for new syntaxes (or the attribute one) than a
directive. A directive can be anywhere and I'd need to go looking for
it if I want to know whether it is set or not. Some syntax extension
would be right at the declaration.
Such "inventions" are usually for specific APIs, and then the directive
can be set global. Make it a new language syntax, and it turns up
everywhere, also where it was not intended for.
So, yeah, we'll probably compromise towards the attribute syntax...
That's a second. Note that the stuff where this is borrowed from (like
Windows headers [size_is are also attributes.
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