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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0038071 | FPC | Documentation | public | 2020-11-12 15:40 | 2020-11-16 16:44 |
| Reporter | OkobaPatino | Assigned To | Michael Van Canneyt | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | N/A |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Fixed in Version | 3.3.1 | ||||
| Summary | 0038071: State that declaration global operators in Delphi mode is not possible | ||||
| Description | It is not clear from this document that it is impossible to declare a global operator for a type. https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse102.html It should be something like this that these operators are not recognized in Delphi mode: https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse109.html To be clear, this code is not possible in Delphi mode but possible in objfpc mode: program Project1; {$MODE Delphi} type complex = record re: Real; im: Real; end; operator assign (r: Real) z: complex; begin z.re := r; z.im := 0.0; end; var R: Real; C: complex; begin C := R; end. | ||||
| Additional Information | https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,52117.0.html | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in Revision | 1774. | ||||
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| FPCTarget | 3.2.2 | ||||
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| has duplicate | 0038072 | closed | Michael Van Canneyt | Documentation for operator overloading does not mention that global operator overloading is not possible in Delphi mode |
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B.t.w.: It also does not mention that you cannot use syntax like "operator + (R,L: TSomeType): TSomeType", but you have to use symbolic types ("add" in this case). At least according to Ebarcadero: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Sydney/en/Operator_Overloading_(Delphi) |
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Bart, it _does_ say below the table 15.1 “Operator Names”, quote: *Remark* When compiling in `Delphi` mode the names of the operators _must_ be used, not the symbols. |
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@Kai The official docs are at ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/docs-pdf/ref.pdf This document does NOT have a table in section 15.1 and the phrase "the names of the operators" does not appear in the entire document. [Edit] @Kai: I see now that you refer to https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse102.html |
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Are they? As far as I understand Michael, the “official” official documentation is the repository. Supplying a PDF version is just a complimentary service, so are the HTML pages. If the tools used for that (pdflatex, text2ht) do not generate appropriate documents, it is “not our department”. After all, the source code `ref.tex` _does_ contain the proper statements. |
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> Are they? Maybe, or maybe not. I would expect the pdf to be the same as the html files, since https://freepascal.org/docs.html points to the pdf in question. I used the pdf, because you can search the whole document for phrases. But this becomes a bit off-topic for the mattaer at hand. |
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Reworked the documentation on operator overloading. Essentially: - Global operators are not at all supported in mode Delphi. - Global operators only work with symbols (+/-=* etc). - In record class operator definitions, objfpc mode requires symbols, delphi mode allows both symbols and names. |
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@Bart: Unfortunately, the PDF documentation files on the FTP site had not been updated :-( (you could have spotted this in the version number, they dated from 2017) But I did this now. Good that this discussion arose, or I would never have noticed. Thanks ! |
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Thanks @michael. When does the live document (that I linked to) will be updated? |
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When 3.2.2 is released, this should hopefully still be this year. |
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Where can I check the last version documentation before reporting such a bug in the future? As maybe this one was fixed already, and the live version that I reported was old. I checked the commit list of this (https://github.com/graemeg/freepascal/commits/master) mirror, but I couldn't find the change. |
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In subversion: svn co https://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcdocs Or on the web: https://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/?root=docs |
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So there is no way to see them as the web document (with pages like the live version) to find the values quickly. Something like https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/ to move between versions will be useful. But I found your changes, and they are much more apparent. Thank you. |
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Checked and it is now clear. Thank you. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2020-11-12 15:40 | OkobaPatino | New Issue | |
| 2020-11-12 15:40 | OkobaPatino | Status | new => assigned |
| 2020-11-12 15:40 | OkobaPatino | Assigned To | => Michael Van Canneyt |
| 2020-11-12 17:07 | Michael Van Canneyt | Relationship added | has duplicate 0038072 |
| 2020-11-12 17:09 | Bart Broersma | Note Added: 0126864 | |
| 2020-11-13 02:03 | Kai Burghardt | Note Added: 0126869 | |
| 2020-11-13 12:44 | Bart Broersma | Note Added: 0126875 | |
| 2020-11-13 12:50 | Bart Broersma | Note Edited: 0126875 | View Revisions |
| 2020-11-13 13:05 | Kai Burghardt | Note Added: 0126876 | |
| 2020-11-13 14:41 | Bart Broersma | Note Added: 0126878 | |
| 2020-11-13 15:50 | Michael Van Canneyt | Status | assigned => resolved |
| 2020-11-13 15:50 | Michael Van Canneyt | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2020-11-13 15:50 | Michael Van Canneyt | Fixed in Version | => 3.3.1 |
| 2020-11-13 15:50 | Michael Van Canneyt | Fixed in Revision | => 1774. |
| 2020-11-13 15:50 | Michael Van Canneyt | FPCTarget | => 3.2.2 |
| 2020-11-13 15:50 | Michael Van Canneyt | Note Added: 0126882 | |
| 2020-11-13 15:53 | Michael Van Canneyt | Note Added: 0126884 | |
| 2020-11-14 06:47 | OkobaPatino | Note Added: 0126908 | |
| 2020-11-14 10:19 | Michael Van Canneyt | Note Added: 0126911 | |
| 2020-11-14 10:39 | OkobaPatino | Note Added: 0126913 | |
| 2020-11-14 10:49 | Michael Van Canneyt | Note Added: 0126915 | |
| 2020-11-14 12:21 | OkobaPatino | Note Added: 0126921 | |
| 2020-11-16 16:44 | OkobaPatino | Status | resolved => closed |
| 2020-11-16 16:44 | OkobaPatino | Note Added: 0126985 |
