On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM Marco van de Voort via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > IMHO it is a feature better forgotten. +1, it's an abomination IMHO ;-) Out of curiosity: could the zerobased-ness of the string be stored in the string's "header"? -- Bart