On 02 Apr 2011, at 19:36, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
> Jonas Maebe schrieb:
> > If you don't want the compiler to interfere with anything you do, do not
> > use automated types such as ansistring, unicodestring, dynamic array and
> > COM-style interfaces. The whole point of these types is that th
Jonas Maebe schrieb:
> If you don't want the compiler to interfere with anything you do, do
not use automated types such as ansistring, unicodestring, dynamic array
and COM-style interfaces. The whole point of these types is that the
compiler will do lots of stuff behind your back, because with
DaWorm schrieb:
> IMO, a dynamic array should never be part of a structure that is
> passed to BlockWrite in the first place. Not that I use many dynamic
> arrays in the first place, but to me they pass over the border between
> simple data types (that are fine for BlockWrite) and managed data
>
On 02 Apr 2011, at 18:19, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
> >> I would never expect an assignmet to nil changing anything else than just
> >> the value of the pointer. And for (all?) other pointers this expectation
> >> is valid.
> > That expectation is not valid for any reference counted type (be it
IMO, a dynamic array should never be part of a structure that is
passed to BlockWrite in the first place. Not that I use many dynamic
arrays in the first place, but to me they pass over the border between
simple data types (that are fine for BlockWrite) and managed data
types (that have quite a lo
>> I would never expect an assignmet to nil changing anything else than
just the value of the pointer. And for (all?) other pointers this
expectation is valid.
> That expectation is not valid for any reference counted type (be it a
dynamic array, ansistring, unicodestring, COM-style interfaces).
On 4/1/11, DaWorm wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Bart wrote:
> It
> seems to me like a lot of effort to trap something that will rarely
> happen.
But it does happen.
I don't mind that it raises an exception in Destroy (although I find
it rather odd), but the consequences of raising t
