Is it memory safe to provide an object as a function result?

Question

Here I provide simple piece of code.

function GetStringList:TStringList;
var i:integer;
begin
   Result:=TStringList.Create;
   Result.Add(\'Adam\');
   Res         


        

Answer 1

I don't know what you mean by safe, but it is common practice. The caller of the function becomes responsible for freeing the returned object:

var
   s : TStringList; 
begin
   s := GetStringList;
   // stuff
   s.free;
end;