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

[Anton Kavalenka]

> Nothing stops you from doing this yourself.
>
> But for something as basic as text operations, I think this is bloat.
>
> Imagine that you would have to do
>   I:=TInteger.Create(1);
>   J:=TInteger.Create(2);
>   I.Add(J);
> What kind of language do you end up with then ? Utterly unreadable, and 
> slow, because heavily relying on the heap.
>
> Michael.
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Bad example
Numbers are scalars
Strings are vectors
+= operator in not so straightforward as for numbers.

Who else except Pascal developers knows that s:=s1+s2 is the string 
concatenation and invokes lot of hidden stuff that is out of control.
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