Re: Delphi.NET

Rob Kennedy wrote:

I wonder what initialization *static* arrays require?


Same as dynamic ones.

I.e. in .NET no Pascal records and static arrays are available :-(

Now all arrays are dynamic, and records are objects - hopefully working now, in older Delphi versions the Object type was broken.

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