[Lazarus] IUnknown and reference counting

Michael Schnell mschnell at lumino.de
Mon Mar 25 10:16:26 CET 2013


On 03/21/2013 09:40 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>
>> Interfaces are there to abstract away the implementation,
>
> No, that's only a side-effect.

As this is what the syntax provides, IMHO language-wise this is a major 
"effect". (See the example of creating an Algebra, using interfaces to 
allow for using the elements (instances of the class) without the need 
of creating them.)

-Michael




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