[DUG] Dumb Friday Question

[Rohit Gupta]

I would go along with Robert, you should not return complex types from 
functions that create them,   It makes the code messy, you create it in 
one place and free it in another.  Any sort of code analyser would also 
complain about this.  You could return a string = stringlist.text and 
assign it to a local stringlist.

Jeremy Coulter wrote:
> Hi All. This is a question that might be infulenced by some serious 
> lack of sleep :-)
>  
> I have a funtion. Its return result is a TStringlist.
> In my code I create a TStringlist then add my values to it, then pass 
> this to the RESULT varaible for the function.
>  
> Now,  this is prob. an obvious answer than I prob. do actually know, 
> but if I got:-
>  
> sResult := TStringList.create;
> sResult.add('blah');
> Result:=sResult;
>  
> Then if I free sResult, then I loss the values I added, and the result 
> is empty as you would expect.
> But the issue I have is, so if I DONT free sResults, what happens to 
> it? Surley it stays in memory,a dn I would end up with a memory leack 
> after repeaditive calls. Is that right? Or is because the variable is 
> function specific its free by default etc?
> Its a basic question I know....but the more I thought about it the 
> more uncertain I became....I really need some sleep so that prob. the 
> real probelm :-)
>  
> Jeremy
>  
>  
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