Or: “Environmentally Friendly Coding – Recycle Your Keywords”

Yesterday I logged a Quality Central report proposing the addition of support for “automatic variables” to the Delphi language.  Not only is it an excellent idea (in my humble and utterly objective opinion ), but there is already a keyword in the language that could be co-opted for this purpose, a keyword that has been at something of a loose-end since it was deprecated (rendered obsolete even) a long, long time ago…

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