What are the reasons to use TArray instead of Array of T?

Question

I\'m migrating a legacy Delphi application to Delphi-XE2, and I\'m wondering if there\'s a good reason to replace the arrays defined as Array of MyType to

Answer 1

It comes in handy for function results.

Example:

The following is not allowed in Delphi. You need to declare a separate type here. What a waste of time.

function MyFunc:array of integer; 
begin
end;

Wait, generics to the resque:

function MyFunc:TArray;
begin
end;