Re: Has a TStringlist been created

J French wrote:
> Further to Rob's points, you really need to set up a Flag of some sort
> to indicate whether an object has been created
> 
> You can rely on the instance pointer being Nil, provided you make darn
> sure that it starts life off as Nil and you FreeAndNil it rigorously
> - but the hassle, and the problems when one makes a mistake, far
> outweigh the benefit of saving one explicit variable

I don't get it. What work do you avoid, by using an explicit variable 
instead of simply nilling pointers that don't go anywhere useful?

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock

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