[Lazarus] New constref parameter-type support in codetools

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:17:05 +0200
Joost van der Sluis <joost at cnoc.nl> wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 01:46 +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 15:53:43 +0200
> > Joost van der Sluis <joost at cnoc.nl> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > There is a xpcom-branch which adds the 'constref' parameter type to Free
> > > Pascal. This can be useful for connecting to external api's
> > > (http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=7612)
> > > 
> > > Normally I would ask Mattias to add the 'constref' parsing to the
> > > codetools and in most cases it's done within a few hours. But this case
> > > I though: I can do this myself.
> > 
> > When is constref a keyword and when not?
> 
> Only in the declaration of the parameters of a
> function/procedure/method:
> 
> function/procedure test(constref param: integer);
> 
> No-where else.

Then it is not a global keyword.

  
> > > Attached patch works for me, but I doubt it is ok. Why are there two
> > > lists for keywords? (WordIsKeyword and WordIsDelphiKeyword) Is that for
> > > the different fpc-compilation mode's?
> > 
> > Yes.
> > WordIsKeyword should probably better be named WordIsObjFPCKeyWord.
> > 
> >  
> > > And what is AllKeyWords for? 
> > 
> > It is used by the simple beautifier.
> > 
> > 
> > > And why is 'END' added to it, it is already in WordIsKeyword?
> > 
> > Thanks for the hint. I removed it.
> 
> And isn't it the case that all delphi-keywords are also ObjFpc-keywords?

No. For example 'operator'.


Mattias