[Lazarus] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: FW: Re: more file operation problems

[Bart]

On 12/17/11, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:

> It is valid Pascal as long as the types used aren't managed ones like
> dynamic arrays, ansistrings and widestrings. But as soon as you use such a
> type it isn't valid anymore in the context of file I/O. "String" is a
> hybrid here, because depending on a compiler option it can be legal Pascal
> or not.

[snip]

> ... while in the file case
> it's just simple type checking which the compiler does anyway.

Thanks for the explanation and your time.

Bart