Category Archives: Coding standard

FieldByName, FindField: too convenient to be honest

Posted on November 28, 2010 by François Gaillard

I don’t know about you, but I can’t count anymore the number of times I’ve seen this code pattern (in code snippets online as well as in production code): while not ADataSet.Eof do begin [...] ADataSet.FieldByName(‘MyFieldName1′).SomePropertyOrMethod; ADataSet.FieldByName(‘MyFieldName2′).SomePropertyOrMethod; [...] ADataSet.Next; end; … Continue reading →

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Hints and Warnings begone!

Posted on November 2, 2010 by François Gaillard

This previous post has stirred some interesting comments and reactions (thank you!). I would like to come back on the “no Hint, no Warning policy” and why I like it, but without the need to be zealot. Why desirable? The … Continue reading →

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Implicit vs Explicit Call to inherited

Posted on September 26, 2010 by François Gaillard

When overriding a method, you have the choice to call the ancestor method implicitly with the inherited keyword alone or with also the method name and its parameters if any. Does it make a difference? Why choose one or the … Continue reading →

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