Very similar to Windows Structured Exception Handling, which the Win32 implementation used, and also looks similar to Java, but without checked exceptions. try/except/end and try/finally/end blocks.
The major differences with C++:
* objects are references not values, cutting out all the copy constructor,
assignment operator, destruction on out of scope etc.
* objects are zero-initialized after allocation and before constructors run
* constructors are run from most derived to least derived
* calling Free method checks if Self is nil
* this + zero init means that you can call '.Free' on all the objects you
reference in the destructor without checking if they're nil first,
handling partial construction
It's not a memory safe language, but it does give you a bunch of idioms that, if you stick to them, you don't feel nearly as much pain as C++.
Very similar to Windows Structured Exception Handling, which the Win32 implementation used, and also looks similar to Java, but without checked exceptions. try/except/end and try/finally/end blocks.
The major differences with C++:
It's not a memory safe language, but it does give you a bunch of idioms that, if you stick to them, you don't feel nearly as much pain as C++.