David Heffernan

So it's just an issue of deployment. Fair enough. I guess there's a bit of complexity in deploying applications well.

What are these priceless advantages? And anyway there are loads of other compilers and toolchains that do this.

Why wouldn't people just use standard libraries and tools for this?

I will never understand how it got released ever. Do they not know how to write tests?

Were just waiting for somebody to start using it I guess

That fabled focus on quality really paying dividends.

Nobody seems yet to have wondered whether the potential for behaviour change is important. This is an ill posed question with no possible answer because we don't know any detail. So much heat, so little light.

Did you just cherry pick the content from above?

Seven year old bug???

What should happen here

I don't really know. There's a part of me that says C++ because I know I'll have good compilers forever. But porting would be hard. For instance, we use lots of nested functions, which don't exist in C++. Not sure how we'd handle that. I think there'd need to be a lot of refactoring of the code in Delphi first to enable a semi automated translation.

I don't care that much about the IDE. It's the compiler and the language that matters more to me.

Your specification in the original post is incomplete so it's not surprising that people don't know what you want. Your clarification is still unclear. Until you can define precisely what you want the code to do how could you expect anyone, even yourself, to be able to write it.

All kinda moot since you'd never use set membership rather than InRange

No, your way is sure to work. Crack on.

Yeah, pretty sure that's all that's needed. Can't believe nobody thought of that before.

What do you mean by "shortest"?

But that's not what it is. It's Delphi 12. Like last time it was Delphi 11 and then 11.1 and then 11.2. So maybe the next one after 12 will be 12.1. Or maybe it will be 13. Or maybe 14. The fact that so many people have such problems with knowing the versions is a sign that their policy is poor. I'm expecting to hear about XE12 before long.

Would you like a pony with that too? Honestly, the entitlement of that statement!

Wouldn't you just write an exhaustive unit test that ensured nothing could go wrong

To search out bad luck amongst our Japanese markets??

None of us can do this though. Why are you posting here instead of submitting a QP request? We aren't the people you need to convince.

Why are you arguing. Surely you have an actual problem to solve. Why don't you just do that. You know all you need to know now.

Well, you say that, but it's the placement of the label that determines whether this an error or not so I think that's fine.

Actually that's not where the compiler reports the error. The compiler reports the error as indicated in my post. At the label.