[Lazarus] object type: strange behaviour

[A.J. Venter]

TP Objects were implemented as "Records with methods" years ago - but
it wasn't really true OO.
There was no concept of a class - and objects were literally nothing
BUT a record with methods, only the barest concepts of virtual,
private and public methods were present, inherittence was... shoddy at
best...

It was a poor man's OO before OP gave us proper class-based objects.

The whole records-with-methods thing to me sounds like a cheap way of
using code that was lying around to add an entry to a featurelist that
was technically already there ages ago - and useless.

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Op 2010-10-22 10:19, Birger Jansen het geskryf:
>>
>> I'm converting a project from Delphi to FreePascal. It is a mathematical
>> application that uses records with methods.
>
> Side Note:
> I still don't get why Borland/Embarcadero did that... records with methods.
> MvC hinted that it is because .Net has records with methods. But delphi
> Objects do exactly that, and existed since Turbo Pascal days. In terms of
> Delphi, what exactly is the difference between a "record with methods" and
> a Object?
>
> Regards,
>  - Graeme -
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