Hints

Type Switch

Syntax {$HINTS ON} or {$HINTS OFF}

Default {$HINTS ON}

Scope Local

Remarks

The $HINTS directive controls the generation of hint messages by the compiler.

In the {$HINTS ON} state, the compiler issues hint messages when detecting unused variables, unused assignments, for or while loops that never execute, and so on. In the {$HINTS OFF} state, the compiler generates no hint messages.

By placing code between {$HINTS OFF} and {$HINTS ON} directives, you can selectively turns off hints that you don't care about. For example,

{$HINTS OFF}

procedure Test;

var

I: Integer;

begin

end;

{$HINTS ON}

Because of the $HINTS directives the compiler will not generate an unused variable hint when compiling the procedure above.

Compiler directives (list)