Re: Power operator fails in ordinal range definition

Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal <[email protected]>
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Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
> 
> On Nov 14, 2024 at 1:53:17 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal 
> <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> The **-operator is not *implemented* by the compiler. It's provided 
>> through the Math unit. Thus you can't use it in constant declarations. 
> 
> Why is that? That means you can do powers in types or constants right?

Only a limited numbers of functions are implemented as compile-time functions. This is so in every 
compiler.

Regards,

Adriaan

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