On 11 Jun 2009, at 14:44, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Jonas Maebe wrote:

On 11 Jun 2009, at 14:14, Martin Friebe wrote:

However it would be nice to have a feature like

property Foo[Index: Integer]: Integer  write SetFoo  read GetFoo;
property Foo[Index: Integer; Ask: Boolean]: Integer write SetFooAsk read GetFooAsk; The must have different Method Names, because the Setters(write SetFoo) last argument is the Value, so it' can not have a optional Ask element: procedure WrongSetFoo(Index: Integer; Ask: Boolean= True; AValue: Integer); But with different Setter/Getters that would not be a problem. In fact they can have the same name, if they are overloaded.
Any idea if such a feature would have a chance?

It won't: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=12737 (that feature request was about having getters/setters with the same name, but the core problem is having multiple properties with the same name).

As far as I know, delphi 2005 and up allow the problem in 12737 for non-published properties. Since array properties cannot be published anyway, the argument with RTTI is void ?

(which doesn't mean there are no other arguments to prevent it's implementation)

Other arguments are also mentioned in the bug report (including about only allowing it for non-published properties). The fact that Delphi allows it is obviously a strong argument in favour of allowing it anyway.


Jonas
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