Typed constants in Delphi.

[Mahdi Safsafi 225]

@David Heffernan

Just one last thing that bother me with SO: There're a lot of people that use a high level vocabulary that any no-native English speaker would understand. Worse they follow grammar mistakes and embarrasses the man in a way (you missed 's', he/she/it ... come on !, ...). When you talk with your Doctor, the Doctor is confined by deontological ethics to give you a clean, simple and loyal information. I believe that should applies on SO too (A man asks question because he is confused otherwise he wouldn't ask).

David and all SO influencers, your voice is heard ! Perhaps, you can start an initiation at least on the Delphi community (this definitely will make a difference).

[David Heffernan 2300]

22 minutes ago, Mahdi Safsafi said:

Worse they follow grammar mistakes and embarrasses the man in a way (you missed 's', he/she/it ... come on !, ...).

I don't think there's any point in picking up those things. I mean edit a post to resolve them, but no need to comment on them. 

 

23 minutes ago, Mahdi Safsafi said:

When you talk with your Doctor, the Doctor is confined by deontological ethics to give you a clean, simple and loyal information. I believe that should applies on SO too (A man asks question because he is confused otherwise he wouldn't ask).

You pay your doctor for a service. Stack Overflow is a little bit different.

 

24 minutes ago, Mahdi Safsafi said:

David and all SO influencers, your voice is heard ! Perhaps, you can start an initiation at least on the Delphi community (this definitely will make a difference).

I have utterly no influence on Stack Overflow. 

[Mahdi Safsafi 225]

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I don't think there's any point in picking up those things. I mean edit a post to resolve them, but no need to comment on them. 

Absolutely ! Few time, I saw people commenting (rather than just editing a post) in an explicitly provocative way just to embarrasses people.

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You pay your doctor for a service.

In fact, paying has nothing to do with that. Its defined by Hippocratic Oath. In a world(no-capitalism) where you don't have to pay for a medical service, your doctor still restricted by deontology ethics. You're right SO is a little bit different(different cultures all around the glob), but I believe that the platform could do much better toward that issue.

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I have utterly no influence on Stack Overflow. 

Than I just hope that things get better there.

[Lars Fosdal 1732]

21 hours ago, Mahdi Safsafi said:

Yes that happened to me too !

Splitting constants between two unit, solved the problem.

 

I tested in 10.3.3. 

[Benmik 1]

7 hours ago, David Heffernan said:

It came across as patronising and gleeful.

It was by no means meant that way. On the contrary, like everybody else I admire and cherish your capabilities as a programmer, but feel bad every time I witness you treating people badly for minor reasons. I pity this, no more and no less.

[David Heffernan 2300]

1 hour ago, Benmik said:

It was by no means meant that way. On the contrary, like everybody else I admire and cherish your capabilities as a programmer, but feel bad every time I witness you treating people badly for minor reasons. I pity this, no more and no less.

It just goes to show how easy it can be to misinterpret what people mean.

[Fr0sT.Brutal 897]

If only Delphi support true complex constants (arrays, records), typed constants would lose their sense. It's a shame Delphi still can't declare stupid constant array of strings.

 

Btw, for typing simple constants you can use typecasting instead:

const clBlack = TColor(0);

const rbsCRLF = RawByteString(#13#10);