Le 29/08/2022 à 01:41, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit :
If a special function is needed for some COM thing or weird Winapi thing, then
that function should be part of the unit that needs it, not modifying the
generic function intended to be used for general purpose applications output
something that does not conform to other Pascal Boolean datatypes and just
confuses everyone.
Unfortunately, it's not just a few windows functions which use this
behaviour but the whole Windows API:
https://docs.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-getmessage?redirectedfrom=MSDN
The Microsoft BOOL datatype uses this convention so the whole ecosystem
is attracted to use it (other C program on windows, Delphi, ... )
I imagine it's more efficient at the assembler level to process the
result of functions returning boolean.
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