In our previous episode, Alexander Klenin said: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 20:28, Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl> wrote: > > Calling a virtual(!) method when a bookmark is no longer needed allows to do > > other things too, like releasing something with db handles, and allows > > descendents of TDataset to do such things. > > Did you consider declaring TBookmark an interface?
No. The considerations were to chiefly to become delphi compatible, and reduce disruption in the long run. I did a misguided attempt at a D2007 inbetween step, and now trunk has the definitive D2009+ layout. > This way you may get the benefits of both worlds -- > automatic memory management plus an ability to hook > into a deallocation. When designed from scratch that would have been a possibility, certainly. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
