Slides and Demos from BorCon
Last week I had a good time at BorCon giving the CLR 2.0 pitch. As promised here are my slides and demos. Overall I thought the presentation when well.. I didn’t have any demo’s crash on me! One of my favorite parts of the presentation was getting to show possible example syntax from a future version of Delphi… I love seeing how languages grow and change.
// ** hypothetical syntax from Danny Thorpe **
type
List<T> = class
private
elements: array of T;
FCount: Integer;
public
function getItems(index: Integer): T;
procedure setItems(index: Integer; value: T);
procedure Add(element: T);
property Items[index: Integer]: T read getItems write setItems default;
property Count: Integer read FCount;
end;
procedure List<T>.Add(element: T);
begin
if (FCount = elements.Length) then
SetLength(elements, FCount * 2);
elements[FCount] := element;
Inc(FCount);
end;
function List<T>.getItems(index: Integer): T;
begin
result := elements[index];
end;
procedure List<T>.setItems(index: Integer; value: T);
begin
elements[index] := value;
end;
var
intList: List<Integer>;
i: Integer;
begin
intList := List<Integer>.Create;
intList.Add(1); // No boxing
intList.Add(2); // No boxing
intList.Add(‘3’); // Compile-time error
i := intList[0]; // No cast required
end;
I’d love to hear feedback from folks that were at the event… what would you like to see covered differently. Danny warned me that you’d likely pick apart subtle differences between the way Microsoft talks about the CLR and the way Borland talks about it… I’d love to hear those observations.
