Re: Procedural parameters

Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal <[email protected]>
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 On Dec 15, 2024 at 12:21:29 PM, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal <
[email protected]> wrote:

> You mean the original pascal only allowed function declarations to be
> parameter types?
>
> Yes. And it is still true in the ISO 7185 Pascal standard.
>

That doesn’t make any more sense than only allowing them as type
declarations. I guess you couldn’t stored function pointers on variables or
record fields then? Seems strange they would not support that.

Regards,
    Ryan Joseph

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