Contents
List of Tables
 About this guide
  Notations
  Syntax diagrams
 About the Pascal language
1 Pascal Tokens
 1.1 Symbols
 1.2 Comments
 1.3 Reserved words
  1.3.1 Turbo Pascal reserved words
  1.3.2 Free Pascal reserved words
  1.3.3 Object Pascal reserved words
  1.3.4 Modifiers
 1.4 Identifiers
 1.5 Hint directives
 1.6 Numbers
 1.7 Labels
 1.8 Character strings
2 Constants
 2.1 Ordinary constants
 2.2 Typed constants
 2.3 Resource strings
3 Types
 3.1 Base types
  3.1.1 Ordinal types
  3.1.2 Real types
 3.2 Character types
  3.2.1 Char
  3.2.2 Strings
  3.2.3 Short strings
  3.2.4 Ansistrings
  3.2.5 UnicodeStrings
  3.2.6 WideStrings
  3.2.7 Constant strings
  3.2.8 PChar - Null terminated strings
 3.3 Structured Types
  3.3.1 Arrays
  3.3.2 Record types
  3.3.3 Set types
  3.3.4 File types
 3.4 Pointers
 3.5 Forward type declarations
 3.6 Procedural types
 3.7 Variant types
  3.7.1 Definition
  3.7.2 Variants in assignments and expressions
  3.7.3 Variants and interfaces
4 Variables
 4.1 Definition
 4.2 Declaration
 4.3 Scope
 4.4 Initialized variables
 4.5 Thread Variables
 4.6 Properties
5 Objects
 5.1 Declaration
 5.2 Fields
 5.3 Static fields
 5.4 Constructors and destructors
 5.5 Methods
  5.5.1 Declaration
  5.5.2 Method invocation
 5.6 Visibility
6 Classes
 6.1 Class definitions
 6.2 Class instantiation
 6.3 Methods
  6.3.1 Declaration
  6.3.2 invocation
  6.3.3 Virtual methods
  6.3.4 Class methods
  6.3.5 Message methods
  6.3.6 Using inherited
 6.4 Properties
  6.4.1 Definition
  6.4.2 Indexed properties
  6.4.3 Array properties
  6.4.4 Default properties
  6.4.5 Storage information
  6.4.6 Overriding properties
7 Interfaces
 7.1 Definition
 7.2 Interface identification: A GUID
 7.3 Interface implementations
 7.4 Interfaces and COM
 7.5 CORBA and other Interfaces
 7.6 Reference counting
8 Generics
 8.1 Introduction
 8.2 Generic class definition
 8.3 Generic class specialization
 8.4 A word about scope
9 Expressions
 9.1 Expression syntax
 9.2 Function calls
 9.3 Set constructors
 9.4 Value typecasts
 9.5 Variable typecasts
 9.6 Unaligned typecasts
 9.7 The @ operator
 9.8 Operators
  9.8.1 Arithmetic operators
  9.8.2 Logical operators
  9.8.3 Boolean operators
  9.8.4 String operators
  9.8.5 Set operators
  9.8.6 Relational operators
  9.8.7 Class operators
10 Statements
 10.1 Simple statements
  10.1.1 Assignments
  10.1.2 Procedure statements
  10.1.3 Goto statements
 10.2 Structured statements
  10.2.1 Compound statements
  10.2.2 The Case statement
  10.2.3 The If..then..else statement
  10.2.4 The For..to/downto..do statement
  10.2.5 The For..in..do statement
  10.2.6 The Repeat..until statement
  10.2.7 The While..do statement
  10.2.8 The With statement
  10.2.9 Exception Statements
 10.3 Assembler statements
11 Using functions and procedures
 11.1 Procedure declaration
 11.2 Function declaration
 11.3 Function results
 11.4 Parameter lists
  11.4.1 Value parameters
  11.4.2 Variable parameters
  11.4.3 Out parameters
  11.4.4 Constant parameters
  11.4.5 Open array parameters
  11.4.6 Array of const
 11.5 Function overloading
 11.6 Forward defined functions
 11.7 External functions
 11.8 Assembler functions
 11.9 Modifiers
  11.9.1 alias
  11.9.2 cdecl
  11.9.3 export
  11.9.4 inline
  11.9.5 interrupt
  11.9.6 iocheck
  11.9.7 local
  11.9.8 nostackframe
  11.9.9 overload
  11.9.10 pascal
  11.9.11 public
  11.9.12 register
  11.9.13 safecall
  11.9.14 saveregisters
  11.9.15 softfloat
  11.9.16 stdcall
  11.9.17 varargs
 11.10 Unsupported Turbo Pascal modifiers
12 Operator overloading
 12.1 Introduction
 12.2 Operator declarations
 12.3 Assignment operators
 12.4 Arithmetic operators
 12.5 Comparision operator
13 Programs, units, blocks
 13.1 Programs
 13.2 Units
 13.3 Unit dependencies
 13.4 Blocks
 13.5 Scope
  13.5.1 Block scope
  13.5.2 Record scope
  13.5.3 Class scope
  13.5.4 Unit scope
 13.6 Libraries
14 Exceptions
 14.1 The raise statement
 14.2 The try...except statement
 14.3 The try...finally statement
 14.4 Exception handling nesting
 14.5 Exception classes
15 Using assembler
 15.1 Assembler statements
 15.2 Assembler procedures and functions
Index