Michael Van Canneyt wrote on Mon, 07 Mar 2016:
On Mon, 7 Mar 2016, Jonas Maebe wrote:
The syntax with the separate "var aFoo: TFoo" parameter, but then
seemingly using that parameter as some kind of automatic alias for
a fake "self" in the body, is also rather strange (why don't you
have to use "aFoo.F := 10" etc?)
Exactly my question. I think it would have been preferable to drop
the parameter and simply introduce
'self' ?
No, since as Maciej remarked, a class operator is always a static
method. Introducing conventions or behaviours for this class operator
that are different compared to those of other class operators would
not be a good idea (even if it would result in slightly less typing --
you can always add a "with" block if you want to avoid that :)
The current solution seems quite counter-intuitive.
Definitely.
Jonas
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