Contradiction in Documentation for Extended Records

Reference Guide Chapter 9.1

https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/ref/refse61.html#x120-1440009.1

Half way down:

"Some of the restrictions when compared to classes or objects are obvious from the syntax diagram:

• No inheritance of records.
• No published and protected section exists.
• Constructors or destructors cannot be defined.
• Class methods (if one can name them so) require the static keyword.
• Methods cannot be virtual or abstract – this is a consequence of the fact that there is no inheritance."

At the end with the Examples

TTest4 = record  
 private  
   a : Integer;  
 protected  
   function getp : integer;  
 public  
   b : string;  
   procedure setp (aValue : integer);  
   property p : integer read Getp Write SetP;  
 public  
 case x : integer of  
   1 : (Q : string[10]);  
   2 : (S : String[10]);  
 end;

See also:

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=69812.msg542930;topicseen#new

This looks like a mismatch between published documentation and the use of trunk/main. You have to check the documentation for trunk/main, which usually means building it? You may very well be right, but if you use trunk/main you have to check against the documentation of trunk/main. In the past only private and public sections were allowed. Protected does not make sense for lack of inheritance. As such it can be regarded a bug.

protected is not supported inside records so the example in the documentation is indeed wrong.

This is published doc‘s for 3.2.2, accessible from the website And no, i don’t use/have trunk

Apparently, in main it's corrected.

https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/documentation/-/blob/main/tex/ref.tex?ref_type=heads

Around Line 7423/7424

Indeed, was fixed in 4be8bd5b

closed

assigned to @mvancanneyt