[Lazarus] IUnknown and reference counting

[Marco van de Voort]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:36:14AM +0100, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> As already mentioned, Delphi interfaces are the workaround for the 
> missing multiple inheritance in OPL, as known from many languages 
> (Java...). Everything else IMO is language/implementation specific.

I think they are primarily meant for/as external proxy objects. The MI angle
is only secondary (or even less important.