[fpc-devel] RTTI generating

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Sat Sep 20 12:48:20 CEST 2014


On 20.09.2014 12:11, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> Sven Barth schrieb:
>> Am 20.09.2014 01:52 schrieb "Hans-Peter Diettrich" <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com
>
>>  > It's up to the coder to make all properties etc. published, when he
>> *intends* to ever use RTTI on them. That't the way to tell the
>> compiler what to do.
>
>> The extended RTTI introduced with Delphi 2010 allows you to even query
>> private fields if the class developer decided to enable data
>> generation for that.
>
> AFAIK it works in the opposite direction: the developer must *exclude*
> explicitly, in *every* unit, what should *not* be subject to extended
> RTTI. That's my strongest point against (Delphi) extended RTTI, while
> RTTI by itself is okay for me.

The default values are public and published for methods and properties 
and all visibilities for fields.

Regards,
Sven




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