This idea is similar to this feature in C# : https://docs.microsoft.com/fr-fr/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/types/boxing-and-unboxing


Especially when working with Record, Variant and RecordRef, but also with Codeunits/Interface, we have to constantly "cast" variables before calling a procedure and cast again when the value is returned.

Could you simplify developers lives by doing these operations automatically?


procedure DoSomething()
var
Customer: Record Customer;
Item: Record Item;
MyVar: Variant;
MyRec: RecordRef;
begin

//Currently:
MyRec.GetTable(Item);
MyVar := Customer
DoSomethingWithParams(MyVar, MyRec);
Customer := MyVar;
MyRec.SetTable(Item);

//With auto-boxing / unboxing
DoSomethingWithParams(Customer, Item);
//--> of course, here, if DoSomethingWithParams assigns something else than a Record Customer to the first argument or a record from another table for the second argument, an error should occured.
end;

procedure DoSomethingWithParams(var MyVar: Variant; var MyRec: RecordRef)
begin
//...
end;