| & operator for treating keywords as identifiers |
Delphi 2006 |
{$IFEND} directive no longer required to close {$IF} statements: {$ENDIF} can now be used instead.2 |
Delphi XE4 |
{$LEGACYIFEND} directive2 |
Delphi XE5 |
{$MESSAGE} directive |
Delphi 6 |
{$WARN} directive |
Delphi 7 |
| 64 bit compiler |
Delphi XE2 |
| Abstract classes |
Delphi 2006 |
| Anonymous methods / closures |
Delphi 2009 |
| Attributes |
Delphi 2010 |
| class constructors / destructors |
Delphi 2010 |
| Class data (class var) |
Delphi 2006 |
| Class helpers |
Delphi 2006 |
| Class properties |
Delphi 2005 |
| Custom managed records |
Delphi 10.4 |
| delayed keyword (for loading of DLLs) |
Delphi 2010 |
| deprecated directive |
Delphi 6 |
| deprecated directive with comment |
Delphi 2009 |
| DirectoryExists function moved to SysUtils unit from FileCtrl |
Delphi 6 |
| Dynamic arrays |
Delphi 4 |
Dynamic array concatenation and addition extensions. Dynamic arrays can be initialised by assigning an array constant, as in DI := [1, 2, 3]; and can be concatenated using code like DI := DI + [1, 2, 3]; or DI := DJ + DK, where DI, DJ & DK are all dynamic integer arrays. |
Delphi XE7 |
| EOSError (instead of EWin32Error) |
Delphi 6 |
| ExcludeTrailingPathDelimiter function |
Delphi 6 |
| Exit with result parameter |
Delphi 2009 |
| Final methods |
Delphi 2006 |
| Floating point number comparison routines added to Math unit. |
Delphi 63 |
| for .. in loops |
Delphi 2005 |
| Frames |
Delphi 5 |
| Function inlining |
Delphi 2005 |
| Generics |
Delphi 2009 |
| IInterface |
Delphi 6 |
| IncludeTrailingPathDelim function |
Delphi 6 |
| Inline variable declarations |
Delphi 10.3 |
| inline keyword |
Delphi 2005 |
| Inner exceptions |
Delphi 2009 |
| Insert and Delete RTL routines can be used with dynamic arrays in a similar way to how they are used with strings. |
Delphi XE7 |
| Int8 type |
Delphi 2009 |
| Int16 type |
Delphi 2009 |
| Int32 type |
Delphi 2009 |
| Int64 type |
Delphi 4 |
| Interface to object casting |
Delphi 2010 |
| library directive |
Delphi 6 |
| LongWord type |
Delphi 4 |
| Margins and Padding properties on TControl |
Delphi 2006 |
| Namespaces [more info]. See also: Unit scope names. |
Delphi 2005 |
| Nested constants within classes / records |
Delphi 2005 |
| Nested types within classes |
Delphi 2005 |
| Operator overloading on records |
Delphi 2006 |
| Overloading for functions, procedures and methods |
Delphi 4 |
| platform directive |
Delphi 6 |
| RaiseLastOSError procedure |
Delphi 6 |
| Record Helpers for simple types |
Delphi XE3 |
| Records with methods |
Delphi 2006 |
| resourcestring statement |
Delphi 3 |
| RTTI enhancements |
Delphi 2010 |
| SafeLoadLibrary function |
Delphi 5 |
| Scoped enumerators (must have type name prefix) |
Delphi 2009 |
| Sealed classes |
Delphi 2006 |
| static directive for class methods |
Delphi 2005 |
| strict private and strict protected visibility specifiers |
Delphi 2005 |
| string type is UnicodeString |
Delphi 2009 |
| StrUtils unit |
Delphi 6 |
| TApplication.MainFormOnTaskbar property |
Delphi 2007 |
| TArray type in System unit. |
Delphi 2010 |
| TBytes alias for array of Byte |
Delphi 2007 |
| Text format form files |
Delphi 5 |
| TFormatSettings and overloaded format and conversion routines that use it |
Delphi 7 |
| TObject.Equals virtual method |
Delphi 2009 |
| TObject.GetHashCode virtual method |
Delphi 2009 |
| TObject.ToString virtual method |
Delphi 2009 |
| TObject.UnitName method |
Delphi 2009 |
| Touch support |
Delphi 2010 |
| TRegistry supports access flags |
Delphi 6 |
| TRegistry.OpenKeyReadOnly method |
Delphi 4 |
| TryStrToXXXX routines added to SysUtils |
Delphi 6 |
| TStream supports 64 bit size and seek offsets |
Delphi 6 |
| TStringList.Create(OwnsObjects: Boolean) constructor overload |
Delphi 2009 |
| Types unit |
Delphi 6 |
| UInt8 type |
Delphi 2009 |
| UInt16 type |
Delphi 2009 |
| UInt32 type |
Delphi 2009 |
| UInt64 type |
Delphi 7 |
| Unicode identifier names |
Delphi 2005 |
| Unicode source files |
Delphi 2005 |
| Unicode support (inc Windows API) |
Delphi 2009 |
| UnicodeString type |
Delphi 2009 |
| Unit conversion handling (that's unit as in mm or inches, not unit as in source code unit) |
Delphi 6 |
| Unit scope names [More info]. See also: Namespaces. |
Delphi XE2 |
| UTF8 source files |
Delphi 2005 |
| UTF8Decode and UTF8Encode routines |
Delphi 6 |
| UTF8String type |
Delphi 6 |
| Variants unit |
Delphi 6 |
| VCL styles |
Delphi XE2 |
| XMLDoc documentation |
Delphi 2005 |