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  From the February 2010 Issue of Prestwood eMag
 
Delphi OOP:
Delphi Member Property (property..read..write)
 
Posted 16 years ago on 12/20/2008 and updated 2/12/2010
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KB101739

Delphi Member Property

Delphi uses a special property keyword to both get and set the values of properties. The read and write keywords are used to get and set the value of the property directly or through an accessor method. For a read-only property, leave out the write portion of the declaration.

You can give properties any visibility you wish (private, protected, etc). It is common in Delphi to start member fields with "F" ("FName" in our example) and drop the "F" with properties that manage member fields ("Name" in our example).

Syntax Example:
TCyborg = class(TObject)
private
  FCName: String;
public
  property CyborgName: String read FCName write FCName;
end;

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Comment 1 of 2

I would recommend FCyborgName rather than FCName.  Why introduce a new suffix.  If CyborgName was a good enough name for the property, why would it not also be a good enough name for the backing field?

I think using another name just introduces a possibility for confusion.  Particularly as the list of property names gets longer and longer.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Posted 14 years ago

Comment 2 of 2

Good point Mark. Real and fully descriptive names are always better.

Posted 14 years ago
 
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