New Delphi 6 Features
A number of nice additions to Delphi 6, particularly in the language and compiler area, can make application development go more smoothly. However, it's important to bear in mind that employing these features might mean that your code will not compile in earlier product versions.
Variants
Rather than being implemented within the compiler, support for the Variant data type has been opened up to support user-installable types. This support is found in the Variants unit.
Enum Values
In an effort to achieve greater compatibility with C++, the compiler now supports the assignment of values to elements of an enumerated type, as shown here:
type TFoo = (fTwo=2, fFour=4, fSix=6, fEight=8);
$IF Directive
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