David C. Hoos, Sr. a �crit dans le message ...
>Agreed.  I only used an access type because the original poster was
>writing from a dereferenced access object.
>

Sure, It was just side note that was more an answer to the original poster.

>Also, local declare blocks, of course, are more restricted in scope than
>dynamically-allocated objects.
>
>Which to use depends on other considerations, but I would probably use
>a storage pool if dynamically allocating, especially in a long-running
>program reading from, say, a network stream.


Certainly something to have in mind.

Pascal.

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