> On Apr 15, 2016, at 7:03 PM, Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Again, you're fighting against design principles of the language. It's just > as if you'd want to have virtual class methods in C++…
Agreed. Everyone has their own list of things they want their language to do I guess. Maybe I got spoiled with the typeless “id” type from Objective-C that let me have little work arounds for things like this. Not having a dictionary type after using PHP hurts also. ;) Here’s another option I thought of. If the type casting was of a serious quantity doing this could save time and improve readability of code. unit unitA; interface type class TClassA private FClassBObject: TObject; public procedure SomeProc; end; implementation uses unitB; type TClassAHelper = class helper for TClassA function aClassBObject: TClassB; end; function TClassAHelper.aClassBObject: TClassB; begin result := TClassB(FClassBObject) end; procedure TClassA.SomeProc; begin aClassBObject.OtherProc; end; end. Regards, Ryan Joseph _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal