[fpc-pascal]How to make a constructor failed?

[Ingmar Tulva]

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Aitor wrote:

}And what is this "fail"? Is it a predefined identifier, similar in
}category to those "exit" and "break"?

Exactly. Borland, our honourable ancestor and inventor of these things,
calls them "procedures", which is confusing, of course.

Fail can only be used inside a constructor. If I remember correctly, it
somehow calls destructor of this object or class. Anyway, it
deallocates the instance and causes the constructor to return Nil.

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