Re: Delphi.NET

Jamie wrote:
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Now all arrays are dynamic, and records are objects - hopefully working now, in older Delphi versions the Object type was broken.

Object type wasn't broken, people just didn't know how to use it.

If the type wasn't broken, then at least the compiler's support for the type was. The compiler accepted code that was just plain wrong, and it generated incorrect implementations of valid code.

We've been over all this before.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc/browse_thread/thread/5f633ef3f758e1d6/2176ea3300f2dfb9

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Rob
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