[DUG] Dumb Friday Question

[Robert martin]

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Rob Martin
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Rohit Gupta wrote:
> 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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