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One of the rarer times when I have to translate computer lingo to English.
When asked what's a thread dump, I responded:
Me: A thread is a task given to a man.A thread dump is a policeman asking the man what he is doing.The man must stop all he is doing in order to answer the policeman.
At the point where I mentioned policeman, the colleague said:
Or the wife!
A somewhat accurate equivalent
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.