"Records as classes" are different from "variant records". And they do exists in either Delphi and FreePascal. In FreePascal those are called "advanced records"

"Records as classes" are different from "variant records". And they do exists in either Delphi and FreePascal. In FreePascal those are called "advanced records". You can get better help on those here: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Record https://wiki.freepascal.org/Record .