[fpc-devel] Suggestion: reference counted objects

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Sat Sep 27 18:45:55 CEST 2014


In our previous episode, Sven Barth said:
> 
> > It looks to me like inside methods Self doesn't deserve refcounting,
> > because a method can be invoked only with an existing instance, which
> > will stay alive at least until the call returns.
> 
> That's the thing I'm not yet entirely sure about. Though disabling it 
> for Self would definitely simplyfy things. I'll simply give it a try and 
> then my constructor problems should hopefully be solved as well...

Methods might return SELF as function result?



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