On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Sven Barth wrote:
Am 06.02.2013 11:03, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Sven Barth wrote:
Hello Free Pascal community!
I'm pleased to announce the addition of type helpers which extend the
existing helper concept with the ability to extend primitive types.
Haha, finally after 7 years of waiting we catch up with Morfik...
In how far? I've read about Morfik just now on Wikipedia, but I found nothing
referring to something like type helpers, so if you could please elaborate?
:)
It does what type helpers do. Only they implemented it by 'refactoring' the
code.
By themselves I think they are pretty useless.
The main advantage is in the codetools of the IDE.
With helpers you can do
i.<ctrl-space>
and get a list of methods, for example ToString;
Which, for newbies, is easier than guessing IntToStr()
We'll have to make some units with 'standard' helpers.
I assume Delphi XE3 has such a unit, we can use that for inspiration.
Thank you very much Sven, excellent work ! :-)
You're welcome. And now I'm going to make Marco happy by further improving
generics :)
You might want to look at the bug reported by Ido Kanner ;-)
Michael.
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