Thanks Cosmin, Doug and Rob - all helpful suggestions which I shall incorporate in my coding. Comments are all over my code, up to lengthy essays in method and unit headers - but even so it's quite easy to get complacent: "Yeah, that function always works OK", forgetting that it may have buried limitations that can't always be predicted and handled.
I don't want to focus too much on the parameter type issue, even though that's what prompted me to post my question in the first place. Some methods may have (multiple) judgement calls (explicit and implicit) in the algorithms that are 'good enough' for the projects in hand but may not always be good enough. I want something that reminds me to check. One of the attractions to me of the redundant parameter is that it shows up at the actual moment I type in the method name and the code completion hint displays the parameters list. Instant reminder to check the comments, code and any docs I wrote. Is it possible to mark methods so that they raise home-made compiler warnings/hints? _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi
