Helpers added to DWScript
In the SVN version, DWScript now has experimental support for helpers. This is a generalization of Delphi’s class helpers, which can be applied to (almost) any type. You can also have multiple helpers per type.
Dynamic arrays as stacks, tighter JavaScript
Here is a summary of the changes of recent happenings in the SVN.
Note that this list doesn’t include the very latest changes and features, which will get an article of their own.
OptimalCode – “Delphi Optimization Guidelines”
If you recognize the title of this article by Robert Lee, then chances are you’ve been around Delphi for a while! 🙂
Alas the optimalcode.com website and Robert Lee disappeared years ago without a trace, but the “Delphi Optimization Guidelines” (dating back from 2002-3003) has been safeguarded and preserved. Recently someone pointed to me that the mirror I had in my Links section had disappeared too…
Delphi “Meteors” running Web-side
Amongst the samples included with Delphi, you can find a “Meteors” clone. With SmartMobileStudio approaching the next beta milestone, I gave it a run at compiling old Delphi code, VCL, TCanvas-based, that was never intended to run Web-side… but now does! Click here or the image below to test it!
Explicitly scoped enums
Oxygene syntax (aka Delphi Prism) for enumerations was recently added to DWScript, with both enum and flags contextual keywords.
Enumerations scoping was already in, but optional, using these keywords make scoping explicitly required.