[fpc-devel] On experience of using class helpers

[Jonas Maebe]

Alexander Klenin wrote on Fri, 20 Apr 2012:

>>> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=21809
>>
>> AFAIK Delphi does not support this either, because in the helper's interface
>> you only have access to members of itself or its parents. If I remember
>> correctly I have even tested code similar to yours at that time and it might
>> still be available as a test in the tests directory.
>
> Maybe, this is why it is a feature request.
> Still, I think it is a reasonable one.

There's an Embarcadero bug report about this, too:  
http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=95548

Unfortunately, there are no comments yet from Embarcadero people to  
indicate whether this is intentional because of some not immediately  
obvious ambiguity or other problem, or whether it's an oversight.


Jonas