What exactly is the difference between and .items.clear in delphi 7?

Question

I would like to know why are there 2 different ways of clearing out a listview. One is by calling listview.clear and other is listview.items.clear.

Answer 1

ListView.Clear is a convenience method that calls ListView.Items.Clear internally. There is no semantic difference no matter which of the two you call.

I prefer the first one because it is shorter and it doesn't show the internal representation which is of no interest for me at this point.