21 Jan
2017
21 Jan
'17
8:19 p.m.
Hello,
How is the production type-inquiry used?
var p : integer;
type q = type of p;
How would it be possible that inquiring as to the type of p is useful? Under what circumstances would the type of p not be already known?
Even if the type of p were not known, how would q be usable if its type were not fixed?
The only reference I can find is in the GNU-Pascal Manual.
function CompilerAssert( condition : boolean, result : Anytype ) : type of Anytype;
What would be returned? Unless Anytype is restricted to types that CompilerAssert is aware of.
Regards,
Paul Isaacs