Re: Delphi.NET

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Daniel Hobson wrote:
You cannot do this either in Turbo Delphi.NET.

Since arrays need initialization, .NET will not allow this in a variant type record.

I wonder what initialization *static* arrays require?

Same as dynamic ones.

As can be seen from sizeof() of
TTest = record
buf: array [0..3] of byte;
end;
no additional information is part of the record. So what the heck is that information, that is pretended to need initialization???

That record actually has a number of methods. One of them is named __Initialize__, and it's implemented like this:

procedure TTest1.__Initialize__;
begin
self.buf := New(array[4] of Byte)
end;

That's the way Reflector shows the code, anyway.

--
Rob
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