On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 23:00:32 +0200 (CEST), Michael Van Canneyt via
fpc-pascal
<fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
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>On Thu, 8 Oct 2020, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote:
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>>> On Oct 8, 2020, at 5:14 AM, gabor via fpc-pascal
>>> <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> You can define typed constant and assign it to variable.
>>>
>>> type
>>> TMyRecord = record
>>> X, Y: Integer;
>>> S: String;
>>> end;
>>>
>>> const
>>> MYDEFREC: TMyRecord = (X: 1; Y: 2; S: 'ABC');
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>> I never understood why we can't initialize fields at init time for
>> records. Pascal seems to be the only language that doesn't support this
>> in 2020. Thinking of C++, C#, PHP, Swift and many more all let you do
>> this. Not even Delphi supports this AKAIK.
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>Of course you can:
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>var
> x : record a,b : integer; end = (a:1;b:3);
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>
>begin
>end.
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>This is identical to how C++ does it. From cppreference.com:
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>typedef struct { int k; int l; int a[2]; } T;
>T x = {.l = 43, .k = 42, .a[1] = 19, .a[0] = 18 };
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If you do that can you be selective and initialize only some fields or
must you list all or none?
Like:
type
TmyRec = record
a, b, c: integer;
d, e: double
end = (a:2; b:3; e:3.1415);
var
charlie: TmyRec;
begin
Default(charlie);
What will charlie.c and charlie.d contain now?
And are a, b and e left alone at the default values?
Or are all zero?
--
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden
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