Using Generic containers in Delphi XE - always?

Question

Generic containers can be a time saver when having a item, and a strongly typed list of those items. It saves the repetitive coding of creating a new class with perhaps a TList

Answer 1

In Delphi XE, there is no reason not to use generic containers.

Switching from the old method with casting will give you:

• cleaner, type-safe, less error-prone code,
• enumerators, for in loops,
• the samebetter performance characteristics.