On 24.03.2012 18:54, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 23 March 2012 15:55, Frank Church wrote:
properly sunk in. It makes me wonder whether I've got my whole
approach to object orientation and encapsulation with Object Pascal
wrong or misconceived as a result of that. I guess it is more obvious
if you start using Lazarus of FPC more on the non visual areas.
Indeed. Using tools like Lazarus IDE and Delphi IDE to build OOP apps
is the worst possible way of doing it. Simply because those two IDE's
rely on streaming via RTTI, which is hugely limited to Published
properties only - thus everything ends up being publicly visible. Yes
the new Delphi now has improved RTTI, but they haven't change the
"everything must have visibility of Published" to work.
That's might be mostly because one of the important aspects of Delphi is
backwards compatibility (yes, I know that there was the switch from
AnsiString to Unicodestring, but there is a saying in Germany:
exceptions confirm the rule ;) ). The aspect that it costs time (aka
money) without a "real" benefit (while I take your critic serious the
guys at Embarcadero might just laugh at you) might also be an important one.
In theory one should be able to implement a GUI framework based on the
concept of the extended RTTI. With quite some work it might even be
possible to switch something like the LCL to such an approach (though
then the famous Delphi compatibility comes in ^^) once FPC has support
for the extended RTTI (where noone is working at currently).
Regards,
Sven
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