--- In [email protected], Rob Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mikcaau wrote: > >> When I have posted that the following lines: > >> > >> Obj := Nil; Obj = nill You cannot get to it anymore, its address is lost Mick
> >> Obj.Free(); > > > > This will cause an exception > > No it won't. What exception do you think it will raise? > > > try > > Obj.Free; > > Obj := nil; > > except > > on E:Exception do; > > end; > > > > will not! > > Once you set Obj := nil you cannot reach it > > But you can still call non-virtual methods on that variable, and Free in > particular won't do anything if it detects that it has been called on a > null reference. > > -- > Rob >
