[fpc-devel] RTTI and Attributes in Delphi 2010

[Paul Ishenin]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> I know what .NET uses it for, but that was not the question.
>
> The question is why does this have to be solved using a language construct?
> Why can't you simply register the Object-Relation mapping somewhere else?
>   
Because it is a more natural way. I want to give full property 
declaration in a one place.
> What is the value of making it RTTI? Sure you can abuse RTTI to hang
> information on any identifier, and make a nice example out of it, but does
> that really display the requirement for RTTI
Currently RTTI is very limited - using it you can only enumerate 
published members, learn their types and default values (for 
properties). Attributes completely eliminates limitations.

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.