Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Wed, 11 Oct 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
$M controls the inclusion of RTTI, i.e. it allows or disallows the
use of the published section.
No more, no less.
I don't see any use in allowing or disallowing something. And with the
current design, it is, as I said, impossible, without macros, to
compile the same code with {$M+} and {$M-}.
While I agree with your statement about allowing/disallowing use of
'published' based on a directive, we inherited this from Delphi and it
is a very basic part of the language & RTL, so changing it is simply not
an option.
Well, as I said, adding a new visibility specifier, e.g. "visible", meaning "public" in {$M-} state
and "published" in {$M=}", does in no way degrade compatibility with Delphi code. One could reserve
the new visibility specifier for modes objfpc and macpas.
Regards,
Adriaan van Os
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