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I see some procedures/functions having 'Wrap' at the end of them. Is there any reason for this?

An example being most of these: http://docs.villavu.com/simba/scriptref/tpa.html#tpafromboxwrap


Thanks for any help. :)

Basically what that means is that it puts the result in a variable parametre in the parenthesis.

e.g: http://docs.villavu.com/simba/scriptref/tpa.html#tpafromboxwrap

var
  Box: TBox;
...
TPAFromBoxWrap(Box, Result);

instead of:

var
  Box: TBox;
...
Result := TPAFromBox(Box);

Ah, I see! Thank you very much for explaining that, I really appreciate it.

So instead of having it return the result with a function, it uses just a parameter to do it. That's very interesting. But is there an increase in speed over using the regular functions? Or is it just better practice to use wrap procedures instead?

Thanks in advance.

There is no advantage. Sometimes it just looks better. And very rarely you want it to be procedure instead of a function.

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There is no advantage. Sometimes it just looks better. And very rarely you want it to be procedure instead of a function.

Technically it would be faster. Although very, very minute.

I didn't know this either. Thanks for the quick summery Daniel. Have some rep noob.

In my eyes it's a bit useless, but atleast I'll know the meaning anyways.