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New Syntax for Extension Methods in Delphi Prism

RemObjects Blogs – Ever since Extension Methods have been introduced in .NET 3.5, we’ve been pondering on a proper syntax to allow developers to define their own. C# uses an awkward syntax where it uses the this keyword (C#’s equivalent of self) as name of the first parameter. But that felt wrong. For one, it’s a very C-like thing to do (having an obscure syntax that is not really discoverable or understandable, it ranks right up there with =0 for abstract methods in C++), for another, the fact that methods receive a self pointer as first parameter shoud be an implementation detail of the ...

Favorite? Off-Topic? marc hoffman @ 2010-02-17 15:12