November 21, 2007
Note 42 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook
Note 42 (commenting the "class operator" keyword used to define overloaded operators for records, covered at page 102) : By reusing existing reserved words, CodeGear managed to have no impact on existing code. This is something they've done quite often recently: strict private, class operator, class var...
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"Strict" isn't a keyword -- it's just a directive (i.e., special meaning only in certain code constructs). So its addition could have broken code that had an instance field called "strict". (Granted, you'd have to violate the convention of prefixing fields with "F" to run afoul of this.) "Operator" also isn't a keyword, though since it has to follow "class", its addition would not have broken any existing code.
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