[badsectoracula]

Nitpick: Borland didn't reboot the object model, they extended it to add the 'class' types, but the 'object' types remained unchanged. The code you wrote works in both Delphi and Free Pascal :-). Object types are used often when you want to allocate objects on the stack or when you want to "embed" objects in other objects/classes (i don't know about Delphi but Free Pascal also extends object types to support newer stuff like properties).

[pjmlp]

Thanks for the correction, always welcome.

Delphi 1.0 was about the time I started focusing on C++, so I am not that knowledgeable about its features. Just remembered that was one of the key changes.