[fpc-devel] Defer keyword

Ryan Joseph genericptr at gmail.com
Tue May 11 03:09:51 CEST 2021



> On May 10, 2021, at 5:59 PM, Kostas Michalopoulos via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at 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.

Regards,
	Ryan Joseph



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