[SOLVED] property out of class

[egsuh]

Is this possible? I remember I saw somewhere that Delphi supports it now (not sure).
I mean defining as following example. Well there are no distinction of private and public, but this might be useful.

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1. unit Unit1;
2.  
3. interface
4.  
5. var
6.    FA: string;
7.    function getA : string;
8.    procedure setA (s: string);
9.  
10.    property A : string read getA write setA;
11. end;
12.  

[Thaddy]

I am not aware Delphi supports it, but FPC definitely supports it.
https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/ref/refse27.html As usual, the manual....

[jamie]

Oh cool, I didn't know that existed...
I'll have to test that in Delphi.

[Thaddy]

If Delphi supports it, it must be the very latest version. 10.1 does not support it.
It may be that Delphi supported it (past) when they were using FPC as their Android/iOS compiler

[ASerge]

If Delphi supports it, it must be the very latest version. 10.1 does not support it.

The latest 10.3 also doesn't support this.

[jamie]

I was thinking I could make something that would work as an operator with this of sorts.

 Experimentation is on the way 

[marcov]

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1. unit Unit1;
2.  
3. interface
4.  
5. var
6.    FA: string;
7.    function getA : string;
8.    procedure setA (s: string);
9.  
10.    property A : string read getA write setA;
11. end;
12.  

Note your indentation suggest something that isn't there. It is actually more

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1. unit Unit1;
2.  
3. interface
4.  
5. var
6.    FA: string;
7.  
8. function getA : string;
9. procedure setA (s: string);
10.  
11. property A : string read getA write setA;
12. end;
13.  

The only connection between the parts is the declare before use of get/seta before property A declaration.

[egsuh]

WOW,  Great.

I read the sentence that Delphi supports it at a site introducing new features of new Delphi version (edited by another user), not at formal site. I have not confirmed afterwards.

I tried this on my FPC program (few months ago), which was not successful. That's possibly because most of my units are in {$mode Delphi}. The manual says this feature works only in {$mode objfpc}. 

Note your indentation suggest something that isn't there. It is actually more

You are right. "function" finishes the scope of "var" declaration, so they'd better be indented at the level