Why can't Delphi variants hold objects?

Question

Why can\'t Delphi variants hold objects? More importantly, what\'s the reason behind this limitation?

Answer 1

I had used Variants to hold objects in the past using the Variant internals, the code is something like this:

var
  MyObject: TMyObject;
  Value: Variant;
begin
  MyObject:= TMyObject.Create;
  TVarData(Value).VType:= VarByRef or VarUnknown;
  TVarData(Value).VPointer:= MyObject;