> AFAIK, it's not written anywhere in the Delphi help. It's rather a
> question of consistent practice when working with an OO language.
>
>
> cheers,
> Helen
>
>

<Delphi documenation>

> Call Terminate to end the application programmatically. By
> calling Terminate
> rather than freeing the application object, you allow the application to
> shut down in an orderly fashion.

</Delphi documentation>

Sorry to harp on this but you appear to be saying that we should ignore the
documentation on this subject and follow, rather, someone's lore on it?

cheers
Alan