Am 19.01.2017 um 10:44 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt: > > At the risk of writing nonsense: > > I would think that a method name should give a clue as to what it actually > does. > In that sense AddRef/Clone seems better to me ?
Even if it is used by types not being ref. counted? Ref. counted types are only a sub-set of managed types. > (unless Copy does something else besides increasing the ref count ?) > > AddRef is clear to anyone, I think. For non-ref. counted types? > > If I see "Clone", I immediatly think of an object whose properties are a copy > of > the original, but which otherwise has nothing to do with the original. This is indeed what it does. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
