About a year ago, Vincent Parret proposed many [WayBack] Delphi Language Enhancements that a lot of developers feel long overdue.
It sprouted a nice G+ discussion at [WayBack] Blogged – Delphi Language Enhancements – Vincent Parrett – Google+
Now this post is a reminder for myself to check out how Idera lived up to the promises they made in that thread.
Evaluation time…
I just found out that Vincent beat me a few days before I scheduled my post (I wrote my post about a year ago): [WayBack] Just over a year ago, I wrote a blog post where I listed some ideas for enhancing the Delphi language… – Vincent Parrett – Google+
Recommended reading.
Oh BTW: in that thread there was a cool way simulating interface helpers by hardcasting an interface to a record having only one field typed as the interface:
[WayBack] [Delphi] Interface helper proposal – Pastebin.com. By Stefan Glienke. Who else (:
In addition, Allen Bauer chimed in with some great insights.
Finally Document Insight author [WayBack] Baoquan Zuo – G+ posted with more suggestions:
I would suggest Embt consider introducing standard function
NameOfandinterface helper. These two features will fundamentally changes a lot of things with “minimum” cost.
His thread too has some really nice comments.
–jeroen