Sunday 24 May 2020

May the "Default" be with you

- or bit of housekeeping in some very old code.

Since we are still in the month of May - I though I could get away with that title - but this small post is not about calendar months or Star Wars.

I have not been very active here for a while - but I wanted to write a bit on the lack of use of StrToXDef, TryStrToX and overloaded constructors that now have been in the RTL for many years.

Just preparing an old Delphi project for the upcoming 10.4 release (real soon now) - and I stumbled upon some horrid old code like this: