SelfAssignedDeclaration

Identifies auto-assigned object declarations.


Inspection type: CodeQualityIssues

Default severity: Suggestion

Reasoning

Auto-assigned objects are automatically re-created as soon as they are referenced. It is therefore impossible to set one such reference to 'Nothing' and then verifying whether the object 'Is Nothing': it will never be. This behavior is potentially confusing and bug-prone

Quick-Fixes

The following quick-fixes are available for this inspection:

  • IgnoreOnce: Adds an '@Ignore annotation to ignore a specific inspection result. Applicable to all inspections whose results can be annotated in a module.
  • IgnoreInModule: Adds an '@IgnoreModule annotation to ignore a inspection results for a specific inspection inside a whole module. Applicable to all inspections whose results can be annotated in a module.

Examples

Each example is a self-contained MCVE showing the feature in a single specific scenario.

Standard Module
Named Module1 by default, these are general-purpose standard procedural modules.
Class Module
Named Class1 by default, these modules define the default interface for an object of that type.
Predeclared Class
A class module with its VB_PredeclaredId attribute set to True (with or without a @PredeclaredId annotation).
Interface Module
Abstract interfaces are class modules (with or without an @Interface annotation) whose default interface is not a class type intended to be instantiated.
UserForm Module
A predeclared class with a design-time visual designer using the MSForms UI framework.
Document Module
Owned by the host application, these class modules belong to the host document and may handle various events fired by the host application.

The following code should NOT trigger this inspection:

MyModule

Public Sub DoSomething()
    Dim c As Collection
    Set c = New Collection
    Set c = Nothing
    c.Add 42 ' error 91
    Debug.Print c.Count ' error 91
    Set c = Nothing
    Debug.Print c Is Nothing ' True
End Sub

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