In our previous episode, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal said: > > function) > > > > In such cases, you don't declare it "auto". Just as you don't free a > > pointer in the function you declare it if you pass the instance to another > > code that stores it beyond the life time of the function > > > > But you don't necessarily know that the function you call does that (think > third party code). And people *will* use this and don't think about the > consequences. So a system with automatic reference counting is safer and > that is what is planned, if at all.
Moreover the use case, dynamically instantiated classes with very local scope is rare. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
