String type function/procedure parameters

[Dany]

Hi, I noticed (from examples in the help text) that it is no longer necessary to provide the length of strings passed to procedures or functions, so

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procedure procname(var S: string);

is perfectly legal .
Using this construction the warning "source size does not match destination size" when calling a procedure/function can be prevented. It was anyway rather senseless (in my opinion) to provide the max-length information, it was not used further, the strings are always handled as pointers. Great enhancement!

But: I wished I had known this sooner, I could not find anything referring to this parameter possibility in the help explicitely.

Keep up the good work!

[janni]

Using this construction the warning "source size does not match destination size" when calling a procedure/function can be prevented.

Not completly . Try calling from such a routine another one that has string size specified. Then the warning may look like

1016 Warning: Source size (-1) does not match destination size (10)

[Dany]

Using this construction the warning "source size does not match destination size" when calling a procedure/function can be prevented.

Not completly . Try calling from such a routine another one that has string size specified. Then the warning may look like

1016 Warning: Source size (-1) does not match destination size (10)

Of course. Thanks.