Equivalent for Delphi's "initialization" section for unit with global method?

Elements Oxygene
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I have a (global) standalone method in a unit. Depending on whether the code is executed as part of a library or application different things need to happen. I do not want to check every time when the global method is called whether it is running as part of a library or application. In Delphi I would create a global variable that determines this and initialize it once as part of the units “initialization” section. Is something similar possible in Oxygene?

2

Sort of. If you have global variables with an initializer they create a class constructor which does this for you, alternatively there’s this hack that works too:

namespace ConsoleApplication437;

interface
{$G+}
uses
  System.Linq;

type
  Program = class
  public
    class method Main(args: array of String): Int32;
  end;

type
  __Global = public partial static class 
  private
  public
    class constructor;
  end;
method Test; empty;

implementation

class constructor __Global;
begin 
  writeLn('hello!');
end;

end.

This will trigger the writeln for the first time you call “Test”, like an initialization.

3

Carlo, thanks for your prompt reply!