On 03/08/2022 12:41, wkitty42--- via fpc-pascal wrote:
On 8/2/22 5:12 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
The variant part of a record must always come last.
FWIW: is this documented somewhere easily found?
google
free pascal language reference
https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/ref.html
and read up on "record"
The variant part must be last in the record. The optional identifier
in the case statement serves to access the tag field value, which
otherwise would be invisible to the programmer. It can be used to see
which variant is active at a certain time^3
<https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu15.html#fn3x4>. In
effect, it introduces a new field in the record.
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