Hello guys,
would you consider introducing the FPC/Delphi princip of open-Arrays?
When I want to pass an Array, which length is determined at runtime, as it seems to me, this isnt possible now, I just can pass dynamic.-Arrays.
–Shpend
Hello guys,
would you consider introducing the FPC/Delphi princip of open-Arrays?
When I want to pass an Array, which length is determined at runtime, as it seems to me, this isnt possible now, I just can pass dynamic.-Arrays.
–Shpend
not sure i understand. we do have support for open arrays. https://docs.elementscompiler.com/API/StandardTypes/Arrays/
Mark, actually no, I dont mean this^^
I mean, more this:
What will this give us that dynamic arrays do not?
It will give you the possibility to pass a stack-array instead of heapallocated-array.
Are high level arrays syntactic sugar around a platform collection type ?
Yes. they are implemented in the Swift Base Library, as mapped type to the platform native List/NSArray classes.
Unfortunately the syntax FPC uses is already in use for regular arrays so we can’t support that. We might do a special reference type at some point in the future, but there are no plans to add this at this point.
Ok, But better than nothing
Btw, I know this is offtopic^^ but, can you tell me pls, when would you say, this Problem of casting an enum to ist basetype, like:
var TRange = 0..1000;
var Enm = enum(a = 20, b = 40, c = 100) of TRange;
var myVar := TRange(Enm.a); //yet it raises an error
Would be fixed?
I understand it is offtopic, but I get to much Errors because of this and yes i can cast it to int32/int64 but it would currently just “pervert” the sourcecode when I Need to cast to int32 everywhere its used.
Hmm but shouldnt it be then a stack-allocated-array^^ ?
It’s logged, however I can’t say when it will be done.