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