[fpc-pascal] Re: String type compatibility

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Sven Barth wrote:
> Am 03.04.2013 12:11, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:

>> I wonder if I could ask a related question. I was looking at some 
>> parser code yesterday that I wrote years ago, and that still compiles 
>> with TP5, TopSpeed and so on. It's got a couple of underlying 
>> string[255] declarations: is there a 16-bit Unicode equivalent which 
>> uses this syntax?
>>
> No, because all newer string types are not restricted in size (if you 
> don't consider 2GB as a restriction :) ).

Thanks, I thought that was probably the case but thought it worth asking.

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