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Some interesting discussion is happening at Raymond Chen's blog, “The Old New Thing” in relation to C++ and C#. Raymond recently wrote an article on “What is purecall?”. In the comments at Raymond Chen's blog for “What is purecall?”, I commented / questioned
Centaur pointed out that constructors served as initializers. M Knight said that “Delphi constructors are really initializers”. And then, Henk Devos pointed out that “In reality it means Delphi does not have real constructors”.
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Continued discussion of undocumented Delphi 8 Property Access Specifiers, and other ways of adding and removing delegates / events handlers, including clearing the list of all the delegates / event handlers.
This article discusses the new Delphi 8 property access specifiers.
A method pointer is now the same as a global procedure, ie, procedure of object = procedure.