[fpc-devel] Unicodestring branch, please test and help fixing
    Marco van de Voort 
    marcov at stack.nl
       
    Mon Sep  1 13:40:48 CEST 2008
    
    
  
In our previous episode, Ivo Steinmann said:
> > fpc-devel maillist  -  fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org
> > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
> >
> >   
> Why not creating a new kind of managed class, that is refcounted, 
> initialized, finalized, etc... like String type?
I never liked string-types as classes. They feel like cheap imitations of a
real string type.
Before you know it you are messing with special stringbuilder classes and
special syntax to keep a semblance of performance. Moreover I don't really
see what this solves.
    
    
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