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    <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Jan 24, 2025 at 8:38:25 AM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal <<a href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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        Maybe because there's a much better way to write it:<br><br>procedure foo();<br>var<br>  s1: TStringList = nil;<br>  s2: TStringList = nil;<br>  s3: TStringList = nil;<br>begin<br>  try<br>    s1:=TStringList.create;<br>    s2:=TStringList.create;<br>    s3:=TStringList.create;<br>    doWhatever(s1,s2,s3);<br>  finally<br>    FreeAndNil(s3);<br>    FreeAndNil(s2);<br>    FreeAndNil(s1);<br>  end;<br>end;<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Nikolay
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<div dir="ltr">I’ve basically never used try..finally in  my own code but I have seen really ugly nested like about in other projects. This a down stream consequence of exceptions right?</div><div dir="ltr">
    <br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Regards,</div>    Ryan Joseph</div></div><br>
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