Class-like records

New features since Delphi 7 > Class-like records

Since Delphi 7 the abilities of records have been expanded to more class-like structures with properties, methods and nested types. Here an example from

http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Rio/en/Structured_Types_(Delphi)#Records_.28advanced.29

type

   TMyRecord = record

     type

       TInnerColorType = Integer;

     var

       Red: Integer;

     class var

       Blue: Integer;

     procedure printRed();

     constructor Create(val: Integer);

     property RedProperty: TInnerColorType read Red write Red;

     class property BlueProp: TInnerColorType read Blue write Blue;

 end;

implementation

 constructor TMyRecord.Create(val: Integer);

 begin

   Red := val;

 end;

 procedure TMyRecord.printRed;

 begin

   Writeln('Red: ', Red);

 end;

Delphi2C# converts these new features to:

public struct TMyRecord

{

  public int Red;

  public static int Blue;

  public void printRed()

  {

    { Write("Red: "); WriteLn(Red); };

  }

  public TMyRecord(int val)

  {

    Red = val;

  }

  public void Create(int val)

  {

    Red = val;

  }

  /*property RedProperty : TInnerColorType read Red write Red;*/

  public int RedProperty

  {

    get

    {

      return Red;

    }

    set

    {

      Red = value;

    }

  }

  /*property BlueProp : TInnerColorType read Blue write Blue;*/

  public static int BlueProp

  {

    get

    {

      return Blue;

    }

    set

    {

      Blue = value;

    }

  }

  public static TMyRecord CreateRecord(){return new TMyRecord();}

};

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