Re:The answer here is yes!

Posted Jan 1, 2015 22:51 UTC (Thu) by reubenhwk (guest, #75803)
In reply to: Re:The answer here is yes! by ldo
Parent article: The "too small to fail" memory-allocation rule

It seems like the vars around /* so I don't dispose of it yet */ are used as local variable where you're building/using something, and at a point (where the assignment of result is) is where you're ready to call this data structure complete and ready to return. I do something similar. When I can I try to ensure that a function either completely fails or completely succeeds with no in-between.