[Lazarus] Some syntax changes

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Mattias Gaertner schrieb:

>> Perhaps nobody noticed that in the past days the Pascal syntax has 
>> changed a bit. This leads to wrong behaviour of the code tools :-(
>>
>> Now unit properties can follow an "var" block, while this was flagged 
>> with an error: expected ":" after "property".
> 
> Can you give an example or better: the definition?

I would be happier myself, if I had a valid definition :-(

Let's postpone this one, until I can be sure that it is not related to 
my current work on the compiler. A duplicate function of the same name, 
in different units, and the wrong use of a function result instead of 
function invocation (recursion) has caused much confusion in the last 
days. I'm also confused by the compiler versions, now existing on my 
test system (trunk and branch version).

A simple example:

function GetProp: byte;
var
   test: integer;
property
   prop1: byte read GetProp;
   prop2: byte read GetProp;

If this is handled properly for you, I'm sorry for this wrong item.


>> The usage of an function name instead of the Result variable has been 
>> restricted. For some reason Lazarus now rejects "Result" in code 
>> completion, even if it is accepted by the compiler.
> 
> Can you give an example or better: the definition?

This happened to me in a property getter function, i.e. in the GetProp 
implementation in above example. So it may be related to the above 
property problem.


>> It also seems that Lazarus has problems with $IF, even simple 
>> expressions are not evaluated properly, so that the wrong branch is 
>> handled as enabled/disabled.
> 
> Can you give an example?

Commandline option: -dMyConst:=1 (may work with local $DEFINE as well)

Code: {$IF MyConst>1} ...

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