> C) Just out of curiosity, am wondering why FreeAndNil is global procedure > instead of a method/destructor of TObject. I am guessing it is > for compatibility with Delphi which may or may not have a reason?
A method could not act the way FreeAndNil works (zeroing a local pointer variable). It could be a static/class method, but this would just add noise to the code. BTW FreeAndNil can only on TObject and descendants. -Flávio _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
