[Lazarus] Forum under attack

Howard Page-Clark hdpc at talktalk.net
Wed Jan 12 11:01:37 CET 2011


On 12/1/11 9:27, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd
>> <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
>>> How about a Capcha that was a coding problem?
>>
>> Some users do not speak english very well, so they may not understand
>> the problem that we are trying to express.
>
> But they speak Pascal, otherwise why are they trying to register?
>
> function a(b, c: integer): integer;
>
> function d(c, b): integer;
>
> begin
> b:= c + d
> end;
>
> begin
> a:= d(c, c)
> end;
>
> What does a(2, 3) return?
>
Mark I think you can do better than that!

Assuming you meant to write

function d(c, b: integer): integer; etc.

it is still a nonsense, a function that tries to alter non-var 
parameters and has an undefined result.

It's OK to give newcomers to the forum a slight hurdle before entry, but 
not to offer them this sort of hopeless hoop that can't be jumped 
through, and suggests that the users of the forum can't write valid Pascal!

Howard




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