Function with just underscore _() seems to be valid

[Mike Torrettinni 198]

I noticed this function in gnugettext:

function _(const szMsgId: MsgIdString): TranslatedUnicodeString;

It seems you can name the methods with just underscore, or even multiple of them:

 

procedure _;

procedure ______;

 

Is there any situation when this might trigger some unexpected issues?

 

Wow, Delphi world 🙂

 

 

[Anders Melander 1783]

19 minutes ago, Mike Torrettinni said:

Is there any situation when this might trigger some unexpected issues?

No.

[David Heffernan 2345]

Why do you feel that there might be a problem? The rules for identifiers are well documented. These all meet the rules. 

[Mike Torrettinni 198]

Great! Everyday something new 🙂

[Vandrovnik 214]

2 hours ago, Mike Torrettinni said:

Is there any situation when this might trigger some unexpected issues?

With this info in mind, for bad customers you can start programming like that:

const 
 _ = 1;
 _____ = 2;

x =   _____                                   + 
     (_-_-_)                                  +
        0                                     +
     _+0-0+_                                  ;

 

Edited May 5, 2020 by Vandrovnik

[dummzeuch 1505]

We have Delphi, we don't need no fchking brainf*ck or whitespace.

 

x=3

Edited May 5, 2020 by dummzeuch

[Rollo62 536]

16 hours ago, Vandrovnik said:

With this info in mind, for bad customers you can start programming like that:

const 
 _ = 1;
 _____ = 2;

x =   _____                                   + 
     (_-_-_)                                  +
        0                                     +
     _+0-0+_                                  ;

 

Who said that Delphi couldn't look like C++

[Guest]

18 hours ago, dummzeuch said:

We have Delphi, we don't need no fchking brainf*ck or whitespace.

Never saw Brainfuck. Methinks it's kinda cool.

Take Neil Stephenson's Diamond Age and you should be able to express the princess educational story's in Brainfuck.

At least the ones with the mice and the chain.

 

Also, we could introduce another variable naming conv;

 

if an identifier start with _, the values assigned to it will be multiplied with the number of _ before the first non _ character.

Then the code snippet above would yield something other than 0.

 

Let's stop here.

[aehimself 396]

On 5/5/2020 at 11:39 PM, dummzeuch said:

we don't need no fchking brainf*ck or whitespace.

Came just to say it reminds me of BrainF*ck. You were faster though 🙂