Re: New Delphi Users

From: Eric Grange (egrange_at_glscene.org)
Date: 02/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:44:58 +0100

> Or do you mean they weren't the full MSDN bloat-umentation? <g>

Yep. Even had a full text search facility on partial words,
something the official MSDN didn't have ;)

> [...] However I still maintain it is much easier to apply the
> NET FCL help to Delphi than it is to apply the Win32 API one .

It's a matter of habit. The Win32 is quite straightforward once
you understands the paradigms, and once wrapped up, you get function
calls that are much more Delphi-like than straight FCL (and most
of the time, wrappings already exist and can be downloaded for free).

> [...] and D8 *does* include a Delphi language reference.

But it's not printed, riddled with D7-specific stuff, and generally
not a good way to introduce a language. It's more useful as a reference,
later on, when f.i. you forget which set operator performs an intersection
or which of smallint and shortint is the signed-word type.

Eric

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