[fpc-pascal] Fwd: What to do to get new users

[Hairy Pixels]

 On Jan 24, 2025 at 11:20:02 AM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

> As you can see, it's more complicated and more error prone. You can
> simplify it a little bit with goto, but it will never be better, compared
> to try...finally
>
>
ok, I’ve never used exceptions in FPC except to mean actual exceptions as
in the program is corrupted so quit and exit.

I’ve seen other people put these all over their code though. I guess the
idea is that they’re trying to recover from exceptions and so they need to
wrap literally every single function that could fail anywhere with
try…finally. I don’t have any examples but I think I’ve seen this (feel
free to post any if people could think of some from real projects).

Feels to me like manual memory management and exceptions don’t mix well. I
use exceptions in C# and Swift and they don’t require all this boiler plate
to prevent memory leaks.

Regards,
    Ryan Joseph
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