[fpc-devel] RTTI and Attributes in Delphi 2010

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> 
> 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.

Give the customer what he wants. And a customer doesn't know enough to show
any restraint. More is always better, and if sb else has it, I also want it.