Modern Object Pascal. Introduction for Programmers [2018 ed.]

Contents......Page 1 Why......Page 2 "Hello world"......Page 3 Functions, procedures, primitive types......Page 4 IF......Page 6 Logical, relational & bit-wise operators......Page 7 Enumerated & ordinal types & sets & constant-length arrays......Page 9 Loops (for, while, repeat, for .. in)......Page 11 Output, logging......Page 14 Converting to string......Page 15 Units......Page 16 Units using each other......Page 18 Qualifying identifiers with unit name......Page 19 Exposing one unit identifiers from another......Page 21 Inheritance, is, as......Page 23 Properties......Page 26 Exceptions......Page 29 Default ancestor......Page 30 Calling inherited method......Page 31 Virtual methods, override & reintroduce......Page 34 How to free......Page 38 Manual & automatic freeing......Page 39 The virtual destructor called Destroy......Page 42 Free notification......Page 43 IO using Streams......Page 46 Containers (Lists, Dictionaries) using Generics......Page 47 Cloning - TPersistent.Assign......Page 53 Local (nested) routines......Page 57 Callbacks (aka events, aka pointers to functions, aka procedural variables)......Page 58 Generics......Page 61 Preprocessor......Page 63 Records......Page 66 Pointers......Page 68 Operator overloading......Page 69 Private & strict private......Page 72 More stuff inside classes & nested classes......Page 73 Class references......Page 74 Static class methods......Page 77 Class properties & variables......Page 79 Class helpers......Page 80 Exception in constructor......Page 81 Bare (CORBA) interfaces......Page 83 CORBA & COM types of interfaces......Page 85 Interfaces GUIDs......Page 87 Reference-counted (COM) interfaces......Page 88 COM interfaces with reference-counting disabled......Page 90 Typecasting interfaces......Page 92 About......Page 96