Just a fun discovery, I didn't know/remember that spaces are valid between "." and fields:

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Just a fun discovery, I didn't know/remember that spaces are valid between "." and fields:

Button1.             Caption := 'Hello';

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  1. Dan Statham (GreatDayDan)February 28, 2015 at 2:45 AM

    Yep. I've noticed that too.

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  2. Mahdi SafsafiFebruary 28, 2015 at 2:59 AM

    Even more ,this one is still valid !
    //------------------------
    Button1
    .
    Caption
    :=
    'Hello'
    ;
    //----------------------

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  3. Dorin DuminicaFebruary 28, 2015 at 3:53 AM

    whitespace(space, tabs, line breaks) is usually ignored

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  4. Martin WienoldFebruary 28, 2015 at 5:58 AM

    I leaverage this when writing unit tests with Mocks.

    fComponent.Setup
      .WillExecute
      .Once
      .WhenCalling
      .Click();

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  5. Richard BaroniunasFebruary 28, 2015 at 6:54 AM

    Great way to mess up a maintenance team.

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  6. Anthony FrazierFebruary 28, 2015 at 11:23 AM

    That feature of the parser is the only thing that makes Fluent interfaces sane.

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  7. Patrick HughesFebruary 28, 2015 at 12:07 PM

    How about:

    with button. do
    begin
    caption := "Hello";
    width := 125;
    height := 24;
    end;

    ;-)

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  8. Rubén CorrederaFebruary 28, 2015 at 12:25 PM

    I did not know either. :)

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  9. Richard StevensMarch 1, 2015 at 10:35 AM

    "Yeah... but you can't do that."
    "Why not?"
    "Because it's freakin' me out."
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY

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  10. Alexander BenikowskiMarch 4, 2015 at 3:56 AM

    Thanks for the tip. Never tried it, but it sounds quite plausible from a parsers point of view. Now mixing this with RightToLeft-Override and some more strange unicode stuff...oh i can hear them scream XD

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