<p>Am 21.06.2016 12:31 schrieb "Michalis Kamburelis" <<a href="mailto:michalis.kambi@gmail.com">michalis.kambi@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
> Current FPC defaults:<br>
><br>
> - Help people who except the {$mode fpc} to be default (so they write<br>
> code without classes and a lot of other new features),<br>
> - Or people who expect that string is by default ShortString (limited<br>
> to 255 chars).</p>
<p>One might argue about changing the default mode, but changing the default String type of mode ObjFPC will very likely result in compilation or runtime errors (probably even in the compiler itself) which is something we tend to avoid without good reasons. At the very least there will be performance differences which - depending on the code - might be noticeable as well.</p>
<p>Regards,<br>
Sven</p>