Michael Van Canneyt schrieb:
The reason is explained in the upcoming docs.
Namely: a static method cannot be overridden.
Sure, but virtual methods (including class methods) can be overridden.
The class property is part of this particular class, and descendent
classes should not be able to override it's behaviour.
A static class method can call another virtual class method,
No, it cannot. Try it. It was explained to me using this exact example.
Then I missed the "static;" directive in the posted example, added to
the getter/setter methods. Delphi introduced that directive after D7,
and I found no useful description for it yet. Now it looks to me as if
we have to distinguish ordinary static (non-virtual) methods from
explicit "static;" methods.
DoDi
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