> On Sep 3, 2018, at 9:17 PM, Martin <f...@mfriebe.de> wrote:
>
> No it is not the same.
>
> You.f.Free;
> will always work, it is not ambiguous.
>
> You.Free;
> depends on no method Free being declared on the class of You, or any of its
> base classes, or any other default class (if more than one is allowed) that
> would be searched at higher priority.
>
> You.Free;
> has a risk, of suddenly and expectingly doing something else. Therefore it is
> not the same.
> It does however take the same action, if and only if there is no other Free,
> but the one you wanted.
I mean given that exact configuration calling Free arrives at the same location
so it’s “the same”. The reason we made the default property was to *omit* the
name of the property AND the name of the field it references.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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