Delphi-PRAXiS - Local variables don't cost nothing!

O my god. I can't believe I have to keep explaining this. To a years-long colleague with some more years on the counter than me, the other day. He repeated a function call with the same arguments a few times in a few adjacent lines of code, with a guarantee in place that this will result the same value every time.

I asked him why. It couldn't be to have less typing, the extra var a:integer; would replace far much more code it took for the repeated function calls. It couldn't be perfor