Delphi compatibility

17 Apr 2004

      Hi

I am not sure if we have discussed this before - but here goes anyway. 
Delphi (at least, from from version 2.0 onwards) allows routines that 
take no parameters to be called with empty brackets appended (e.g., 
"foo();"), much like C requires. See the test program below. GPC does 
not allow this. Is there any chance of supporting this in GPC?

This program is valid in Delphi, but not in GPC ...

program adelph;
function bar : integer;
begin
   bar := 1;
end;
procedure foo;
begin
   Writeln (bar ());
end;
begin
   foo ();
end.

Best regards, The Chief
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Prof. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) 
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Prof A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief)

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