Re: Tasty exceptions

Nick Hodges (Borland/DevCo) wrote:

What if there is an out of memory error, and the 'Result := True' call
is never reached? You'll get no return value for the function, and
you'll have no idea you are out of memory.


A good programmer would know that there is an error by checking the return value or the function.
( Perhaps you didn't see the result := false statement at beginning of the function. )
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