[Lazarus] Thanks to FPC team: Record helper for primitive types!

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2014, silvioprog wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>       On 29.11.2014 16:54, silvioprog wrote:
>             Hello,
>
>             Today I compiled my FPC from trunk and saw the following possibility:
> 
>
>       This feature is available since February 2013 already, you just had to use {$modeswitch typehelpers}
>       (I even announced that on fpc-devel, fpc-pascal and fpc-announce back then). What I committed
>       yesterday was simply to allow them by default in mode Delphi as that mode is simply a collection of
>       features supported by the current Delphi version (in so far they are already implemented in FPC). You
>       still have to use the modeswitch in other modes and in all modes except the Delphi ones it's "type
>       helper" instead of "record helper".
>
>       Regards,
>       Sven
> 
> 
> Awesome. I'll use type helper. =)
> 
> Plans to implement the currently XE helpers? (TIntegerHelper, TStringHelper etc.)

Definitely, as soon as I find time.
But initial patches welcome.

Michael.