Record Helpers for Intrinsic Types, Part 3 – Update

As I already told you, I’m using the great record helpers for intrinsic types. XE3 already ships with the TStringHelper which is defined in System.SysUtils. I looked at the implementation and there a some parts that make me really disappointed.

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function TStringHelper.IsEmpty: Boolean;
begin
  if Self = Empty then
    Result := True
  else
    Result := False;
end;
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Come on guys, this is a bad joke! Everyone who works at least one day with Delphi knows that he can write this code in one simple line.

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function TStringHelper.IsEmpty: Boolean;
begin
  Result := Self = Empty;
end;
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I really hope that his issue will be fixed in XE4…

I just installed XE4 and it has been fixed! Another reason to move to XE4…