[fpc-devel] Unicodestring branch, please test and help fixing

[Marc Weustink]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Ivo Steinmann said:
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>> 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.

OK, then we name it objects (or records with methods)

> 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.

It solves the case that you want to have records/objects with non 
standard inatialisation/finalisation code. Refcounted assignments etc.

If this were possible, I would have used in for the utf enconding of 
strings and for the wincontrol.handle/reference in lazarus.

Marc