[fpc-pascal] About undocumented features

[dmitry boyarintsev]

> I just read the recent documentation and found some undocumented features,
> such as slice, strict, and dispinterface. Can anyone explain what they are?
> And are there any more than these 3?

AFAIK, "slice" is delphi comatibility function. Here's the
description: http://delphi.about.com/library/rtl/blrtlSlice.htm

"dispinterface", it also delphi compatiblity reserved name to define a
dispatch-interface used with Windows COM.

"slice" and "dispinterface" have been there long time ago.

"strict" is introduced for new delphi compatibility?
http://delphi.about.com/od/delphifornet/a/aa022404a_2.htm
[quote]
any member of a class (variable, method, property, ...) has a
visibility attribute. In addition to "standard" Delphi visibility
specifiers, Delphi for .Net adds two new access specifiers. Again,
when you start a new FCL Windows Forms application, and look in the
code that defines the main Form, you'll see two new "groups": strict
private and strict protected.

A member of a class declared with the strict private visibility is
accessible only within the class in which it is declared - not visible
to procedures or functions declared within the same unit.

A member of a class declared with the strict protected visibility is
accessible within the class in which it is declared, and within any
descendant class.

Here's an example:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
type
   TWinForm = class(System.Windows.Forms.Form)
   strict private
     Components: System.ComponentModel.Container;
     DataGrid1: System.Windows.Forms.DataGrid;
     procedure InitializeComponent;
     procedure TWinForm_Load(sender: System.Object; e: System.EventArgs) ;
   strict protected
     procedure Dispose(Disposing: Boolean) ; override;
   public
     constructor Create;
   end;
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[/quote]

thanks,
dmitry