[fpc-pascal] Checking if a TStringList already exists

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 21 May 2019 16:47:28 +0100
Graeme Geldenhuys <mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:

>[...]
> I fully agree with what Michael said. You can't truly expect
> applications developer to trail and error what needs to be done. It's
> an LCL issue that the Lazarus project needs to fix. Delphi's VCL,
> fpGUI Toolkit and MSEide+MSEgui doesn't require this. Proof that LCL
> is doing something wrong or has a bad internal design that needs
> fixing.

I don't know what is wrong, with keeping a reference while it is
being destroyed.
Is this some kind of "my design pattern is better than yours"?


Mattias