Assigning class to pointer and back is that safe ?

From: Skybuck Flying (nospam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 04:31:16 +0100

Hi,

var
p : pointer;
c : TsomeClass;

begin
   c := TsomeClass.Create;
   p := c;
end;

later:

begin
    c := p;
    c.destroy;
end;

So this code creates a class assigns it to a pointer... c goes out of scope,
p is remember.

Then later p is assigned back to a c variable... then c is used to destroy
the class.

Is this safe ?

So in fact this code is assigning a class reference to a pointer and back is
that safe ?

Bye,
  Skybuck.

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