On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Martin <f...@mfriebe.de> wrote: > Had you only read to the end of my mail..... You are deliberately ignoring > part of what I wrote and the blame me for the remainder being incomplete? > > I clearly stated that there are cases where "free" can raise a valid > exception, and that the developper has to know this cases, and handle them > (with nested try blocks). > > But I also wrote that (for me) the rule is that most "free" are not expected > to do so (that may of course be totally different in your code).
Martin, I didn't get to the end of your email because I find that first major part - part and parcel of why Delphi failed as a language. It became unviable because exception handling and blow-outs. Which in turn were caused by sloppy ideologies such as the standing notion here... Which is to let the blow-out occur and move on. Garbage collection was the solution to this problem. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
