On 5/11/2021 4:09 AM, Ryan Joseph via fpc-devel wrote:
On May 10, 2021, at 5:59 PM, Kostas Michalopoulos via fpc-devel <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: You do not need any special language feature for that, you can simply do something like ReleaseLater(TObject.Create)yes but we can't get back the reference. It's a small thing but making this possible as return type means we can chain the calls together and make it a one line statement. It's just a nice thing from Objective-C which we use heavily to manage memory and it works very well.
How about function ReleaseLater(Obj: TObject): TObject that simply returns Obj? (though TBH i can't say i am a fan of these chains from a readability perspective).
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