[fpc-pascal] String conversions

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, Marco van de Voort wrote:

>
> Op 25/06/2019 om 21:58 schreef Ryan Joseph:
>> An exponential growing function applied to all strings would have many 
> worse case behaviours, where it would eat up heaps of memory for nothing. 
> This is why it is better to have the programmer indicate it is a growing 
> string some how (or have a separate type, like TStringBuilder mentioned by 
> Jonas)
>> It would be nice if ansistring had a SetCapacity function to accompany 
> SetLength but in leu of that I think making a new type is the best idea.
>
> I think we have enough string types 
> http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/delphistringtypes.txt
>
> TStringbuilder is fine . Not every problem needs new syntax or types to 
> solve.

I second that.

Michael.