Borland® Delphi™ 6 Developer's Guide

Chapter 2. The Object Pascal Language

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Comments

• Extended Procedure and Function Features

• Variables

• Constants

• Operators

• Object Pascal Types

• User-Defined Types

• Typecasting and Type Conversion

• String Resources

• Testing Conditions

• Loops

• Procedures and Functions

• Scope

• Units

• Packages

• Object-Oriented Programming

• Using Delphi Objects

• Structured Exception Handling

• Runtime Type Information

This chapter sets aside the visual elements of Delphi in order to provide you with an overview of Delphi's underlying language—Object Pascal. To begin with, you'll receive an introduction to the basics of the Object Pascal language, such as language rules and constructs. Later on, you'll learn about some of the more advanced aspects of Object Pascal, such as classes and ...