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Article #32540Re: Function that returns a Class
From: AndyG
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:40
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:40
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"Dana Dill" <dana@danadill.com> wrote in message news:3ddd61dd$1@newsgroups.borland.com... ?. "myVar" is a > local var and when it gets freed it of course frees the assigned object as > well (Which is really the same. <g>) seems to me you apply your C++ background to Delphi. When local var gets out of scope, it is not freed, it's just abandoned. A very popular reason for memory leakage. So actually if it does not matter whether a var is local or not - it's your responsibility to destroy (free) it. it's you who has to control the class lifetime.
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