> ...which makes it impossible to use streams for anything derived from > Tcomponent, which is really a lot. I don't think we should break this > feature to allow broken code to work. BTW even borland themselves seemed to promote its use for storing pointers
from delphi 3 help: "Tag has no predefined meaning to Delphi. The Tag property is provided for the convenience of storing additional integer value or pointer information for special needs in an application. For example, use the Tag property when implementing case statements with a component." _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
