Proper name for free method in old school objects

[LemonParty]

I have an old school object:

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1. type
2.   TMyObject = object {...}

And I need to do a clean up (free some things) when object is not needed anymore. What name should I use for freeing method? .Free?

[jamie]

Not sure about that, it depends if you dynamically create them with Virtual methods?

If they are not that type, then maybe CleanUp, but then again, Advanced records can have constructors so whatever I guess.

Jamie

[LemonParty]

Jamie, do you think advanced records are better choice?
Because I can change objects to advanced records.

[Thausand]

constructor/destructor can be name any thing that want. It common and use init / done (example Freevision).

documentation (chapter declaration also have init/done example) : https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/ref/refch5.html#refse28.html

[cdbc]

Hi
Back in the day, we traditionally used 'Init' for the constructor & 'Done' for the destructor, of our Object(s)... You'd often see code like this:

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1. var myObj: PMyObject;
2. begin
3.   myObj:= new(PMyObject,Init(42,'Life');
4.   writeln('(i) The meaning of ',myObj^.Text,' is ',myObj^.Value);
5.   dispose(myObj,Done);
6. end;
7.  

This all started with Turbo Pascal 5.5 \o/
HTH
Regards Benny

[jamie]

if you don't have any inheritance in the OBJECT, you can replace it with an advanced Record and use finalize, Initialize, Copy operators to auto initiate it and clean it up in the background when it enters and leaves the Code body.

 You can even use the Operator overloads in a record.

  It's up to you .

  Would be nice if either the object model could do that and still keep its ability to inherit or make the RECORD be able to inherit in which that could look more like a C++ class! 

 Jamie

[Thaddy]

records with inheritance are called....wait for it... objects.. hence record inheritance will never happen because it is already in the language.

[LemonParty]

Thank you for answers. I stoped on advanced records for now.