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Leveraging Delphi Generics: Type‑Safe Lists with TList<T>
Before Delphi 2009, the built‑in TList stored TObject references and forced developers to cast every addition and retrieval, opening the door to runtime type errors. Delphi’s generics, especially TList<T>, let you declare the element type once and get compile‑time safety without extra casting.