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

[Anton Kavalenka]

Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Anton Kavalenka wrote:
>
>   
>>> 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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>>>   
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>> Bad example
>> Numbers are scalars
>> Strings are vectors
>> += operator in not so straightforward as for numbers.
>>     
>
> bad example for you, but not for me: Handling strings should be as
> easy as handling integers.
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> This is the beauty of pascal: you don't need to know, and there should
> be no need.
>
> I once asked a C++ programmer how to read a file full of strings.
> After 2 hourse he came to tell me he didn't know.
>
> In Pascal, it takes about 1 minute to code, because strings are a 
> basic type, handled on the stack. And rightly so.
>
> Michael. 
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>   
:-)
This not a holy war C++ vs Pascal
If C++ programmer don't know about fstream descendants - send him back 
to school (or actually (he|she) is VB programmer).

I only have a dream - controllable way of string assignment without any 
magic like implicit call of _LStrAddRefCnt




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