<p>Am 27.06.2013 22:11 schrieb "Hans-Peter Diettrich" <<a href="mailto:DrDiettrich1@aol.com">DrDiettrich1@aol.com</a>>:<br>
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> Marco van de Voort schrieb:<br>
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>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:59:06PM +0200, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:<br>
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>>>> Yeah, that change is going to be a nightmare to lots of existing code. I<br>
>>>> hope Delphi developers enjoy debugging!<br>
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>>> I don't see any relationship to COM here. Java has managed objects, C++ has, .NET has, so why not OPL too?<br>
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>> Java and C# don't count, as safe languages, they have _ONLY_ managed types.<br>
>> Their choices will be hard to backport.<br>
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> Right. The idea sounds to me like the other half-baked attempts to introduce anonymous methods, class helpers etc. into Pascal.</p>
<p>I personally consider helper types implemented cleaner in Object Pascal than C#'s extension methods (except the "one helper only" restriction, but I want to lift that anyway :) ).</p>
<p>Regards,<br>
Sven</p>