>I see your point clearly, but I do wonder at how many production applications this has already made its way into?!?!?!?

*shudder*

>Would it have hurt to put a little more info in the article, like which buffers, under what conditions, are freed up?

No, it wouldn't. But keep in mind that odds are that the person that wrote the article doesn't know C++, doesn't know the code base for VFP (think SBT; learning the code base is like learning a language in itself), and probably just didn't know enough to fill in the details.

> surely 3-4 lines would have covered it.

After we ship 7.0, I'll see about beefing up the article. I just don't have the time right now.