On 21/10/2020 22:46, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote: >> On Oct 21, 2020, at 2:43 PM, Jonas Maebe via fpc-pascal >> <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: >> >> I tried to explain in the rest of my message why that cannot be done. It >> might be possible in some cases, but that would just create a false >> sense of security and unpredictable results (because no compile-time >> range checking is possible for variant records). > Not even for enums? I get that records should just return zero'd memory but > enums seem to be a special case.
A record field whose type is an enum should be handled exactly the same as an individual enum. Jonas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
