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 the spirit of Cosmin's answer, essentially a response to Deltic's answer, here is how to fix Deltic's code:

type
  TAnimal = class
  end;

  TDog = class(TAnimal)
  end;

  TAnimalList = class(TList)
    procedure Feed;
  end;
  TDogList = TAnimalList;

Now you can write:

var
  Dogs: TDogList;
...
  Dogs.Feed;