<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Michael Van Canneyt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@freepascal.org" target="_blank">michael@freepascal.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br></span>
Which is quite confusing and a really bad decision.<br>
Basic integer types should not depend on the OS. On the CPU, yes.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
</font></span><br></blockquote><div></div></div>I guess they tried to make iOS platform a selling point and be more C-like. <br>Just to remember that Strings are zero-based there, by default.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I believe this came with anticipation that the platform will not use (much) of existing code base.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">thanks,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Dmitry<br></div></div>