From: "Andreas Prucha [helicon]" prucha@helicon.co.at To: "gpc@hut.fi" gpc@hut.fi, "jola@csd.uu.se" jola@csd.uu.se Subject: Delphis Object Pascal (was: RE: Reformatted: EFLIB as class library for Object-Pascal (fwd)) Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 04:32:20 +0200 Organization: helicon software development
Andreas Prucha wrote [on Properties in Delphi]
Well, they look like fields, feel like fields, but aren't fields. Properties are declared:
Property <name> : <type> read <howtoget> write <howtoset>;
Proprties can read/write directly to a field or use get/set methods:
[....]
Frank and others, Andreas' article is a classic! I don't think that the Delphi Class model can be explained much better without writing a thesis. I certainly couldn't explain it better in as few words. Basically, it contains all the information that Frank wanted. I hope that this is sufficient for Frank's proposed work on this issue.
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