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| Jul 30, 2017 at 23:13 | comment | added | maaartinus | Delphi misuses properties ad nauseam. You don't sort list, you set its sorted property to true. So setting it to false gives you the original list. :D Or does it shuffle it randomly? :D Or whatever, it's just stupid. Additionally, it's damn slow compared to a proper sorted set. Properties aren't bad, but I've learned to use them very sparingly (till the point of being quite happy with getter and setters; I'm using mostly Java). | |
| Jan 23, 2012 at 5:43 | comment | added | Karthik Sreenivasan | +1 That indeed a real use of a property. Great answer. "It also meant that you could restrict access to properties by making them protected in the abstract base class then moving them to public or published in subclasses." | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 1:02 | history | answered | mcottle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |