When to use object.free and freeandnil (object);

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Which is preferable: Free or FreeAndNil?

when to use free and free and informal?

in my way, I usually use .free when the created object is something like "object.create;" which does not matter self or nil. if there is, then I will use freeandnil ();

Am I doing it right? or does he have a lot of respect?

Answer 1

FreeAndNil sometimes works against you; see the “ case against FreeAndNil ” article from Allen Bauer (chief scientist at Embarcadero) about using FreeAndNil and the subsequent article, which he called “the case where FreeAndNil is your opponent .”

Note that FreeAndNil is not bad, but you need to know what it does to control its effects.

- Jeroen