I observe an increase of people not asking questions on Stack Overflow any more…
Today, two interesting questions caught my eye.
The first one was by Martijn Coppoolse about Is it possible to figure out whether a type’s property has a ‘stored’ flag or not, preferably without having to create an instance of that type? (note: emphasis is mine)
Then the most interesting one (note this is about old Turbo Pascal style object syntax that is still available in Delphi, yes polymorphism with the object keyword): Could you please remind me if Objects support polymorphism? by Roman Yankovsky.
–jeroen
PS: Martijn posted the solution he used:
So I tried looking at the StoredProc pointer, and I can differentiate between three states:
- nil, which means stored False;
- Pointer(1), which means that no stored flag was specified;
- an actual pointer, which means that a method was specified; and the pointer seems to point at the relevant method’s CodeAddress. However, we always use private methods for that, and those don’t seem to be enumerated by GetMethods.
Still, those three states are basically what I needed: don’t include an element when StoredProc = nil; when StoredProc = Pointer(1) make it compulsory, and make it optional otherwise when it’s a pointer.
Thanks a lot to all who helped! +Qing-Shan Xiao +Jeroen Wiert Pluimers +Asbjørn Heid
–jeroen
