[Lazarus] Error in synedit from new SVN revision in Lazarus (31941)

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Flávio Etrusco schrieb:

>> I don't understand "anonymous", "call through", and the example :-(
> 
> anoymous -> "inherited" instead of "inherited SomeCall(AParam: Type);"

Okay, that makes sense.

> call through -> well, I'm no native English speaker either, and I also
> found "through" isn't an appropriate word. IMVHO it's the new behavior
> that calls "through" the parent into the exact overriden method ;-)

Makes sense, too.

> The example is clear for me. Anonymous 'inherited' will call an exact
> inherited implementation instead of a compatible overload in the
> parent/intermediate ancestors. I wasn't really aware of the
> old/current-release FPC behavior :-o
> 
>> IMO a compiler should reject ambigous overloaded procedures, i.e. when the
>> significant parameters only differ in type size.
>>
> 
> It doesn't reject the overloads?

How else would the example compile?

test(b: byte) is not really distinguishable from test(b: longint).

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