Check if object is created

[LP]

Am I the only person around here, who finds the it-is-a-pointer-but-not-exactly behaviour of classes confusing and uses objects instead?

If you are referring to using legacy "objects" (e.g. type TTest = object), then I would expect this functionality to be removed eventually (as far as I understand, it has been considered deprecated for quite some time now), at least in Delphi.

So i can do something like this:
var
Object: TObject;
ObjectPtr: TObject;

begin
Object:= TObject.Create;
ObjectPtr:= @Object;
end.

Im just wondering caus i need that kind of functionality, which is why i am using pointers in the first place.

Well, not exactly:

type
 TMyClass = class // TObject is assumed as base class
 end;
var
  Object: TMyClass;
  ObjectPtr: TMyClass;

begin
 Object:= TMyClass.Create();
 ObjectPtr:= Object; // now ObjectPtr has reference to Object

 Object.Free; // now Object no longer exists, ObjectPtr contains invalid reference.
end.