Re: Procedural parameters

Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.compilers.free-pascal.general
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Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
> 
> On Dec 15, 2024 at 12:21:29 PM, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal 
> <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[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.

Storing function pointers on variables or record fields is a Turbo Pascal invention too.

Regards,

Adriaan van Os

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