Fail

Fail a constructor.

Declaration

Source position: system.fpd line 96

Description

Fail can be used in a constructor for an object or class. It will exit the constructor at once, and the memory allocated for the constructor is freed. This mean that for objects allocated with New, the resulting pointer is Nil and for classes, the object instance will be Nil.

See also

Example

program testfail;

{$mode objfpc}

Type
  TMyClass = Class
    Constructor Create;
  end;
  
  
Constructor TMyClass.Create;    

begin
  Fail;
end;

var
  M : TMyClass;
  
begin
  M:=TMyClass.Create;
  Writeln('M is nil : ',Not Assigned(M));
end.