[fpc-pascal] methods of an object to create others objects

[Martin]

On 07/07/2010 14:25, Andrew Brunner wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Martin<fpc at mfriebe.de>  wrote:
>    
>> if " obj1.free; " crashes, then yes obj2 is not going to be released. But as
>> explained in this and my last mail: It should not be attempted to be
>> released.
>>
>>      
> Martin, I can't disagree more.  I find it completely ludicrous that if
> obj1.free raises an exception you should just trow the baby out with
> the bath water.  If Obj1.Free raised an exception because a disk drive
> was unmounted... Inspect the log... Handle the exception... And fix
> the problem.  Future instances will be handled and all is good.  It is
> my belief that the notion of skipping exception handling and
> restarting an application is very bad practice.
>    
Had you only read to the end of my mail..... You are deliberately 
ignoring part of what I wrote and the blame me for the remainder being 
incomplete?

I clearly stated that there are cases where "free" can raise a valid 
exception, and that the developper has to know this cases, and handle 
them (with nested try blocks).

But I also wrote that (for me) the rule is that most "free" are not 
expected to do so (that may of course be totally different in your code).

Martin