A Timely Poll?

[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute] I’ve been thinking for some time about the direction that the Delphi variant of Pascal is heading, and have had this poll in my back pocket for a couple of weeks.  Just recently the topic has become rather prominent in the NGs, and I myself just logged a language change suggestion. So I thought now might be a good time to “Pop The Question”, hence this weeks poll: How should new language features be introduced to Delphi? You only get to choose one response this week. Choose wisely. 🙂

Proposal for Automated Variables

[Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes] 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…