The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers

Class Operators in Delphi have been introduced in the ARM compiler in Delphi XE4 for iOS support.

By now it has been in the ARM compiler for Android too, and hopefully it will (soon) be in the x86 compiler as well.

So it is time to look at my Nullable types again, and see if I can port them over to classes.

Some references so I won’t forget them:

• Nullable Types | Delphi Spring Framework.
• The Oracle at Delphi » A “Nullable” Post.
• Spoken @ DelphiLive ‘09, May 13-16, San Jose « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
• Delphi operator overloading: table of operators, names, and some notes on usage and ‘glitches’ « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
• Nullable types in Delphi Native.
• 26916 Nullable Types with Generics from Delphi Live! 2009.
• Nulls and Nullable Types in Delphi | ESBDevLib for Delphi VCL / FireMonkey /.NET.

And some ARC links that might come in useful:

• Avoiding Garbage Collector: Delphi and Apple side by side – Synopse.
• Delphi XE3 is preparing (weak) reference counting for class instances – Synopse.
• Circular reference and zeroing weak pointers – Synopse.
• True per-class variable – Synopse.

–jeroen