[fpc-devel] RTTI and Attributes in Delphi 2010

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> 2009/8/16 Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>:
>>
>> Website not accessible. Can you give us the gist of what is so interesting ?
>
> Weird. Anyway, I placed the web page content in a OpenDocument Text
> format available at:
>
> http://opensoft.homeip.net/~graemeg/rtti_and_attributes.odt
>
> Hope that helps.

It does, thank you.

However, it's not so spectacular: 
Attributes are simply old .NET stuff they ported to Win32. 
Seems they had to use a workaround through an attribute class.

I never understood the need for it. RTTI is more than enough
for 99.99% of the cases.

Michael.