[fpc-devel] dominant short strings in compiler source

[Marco van de Voort]

> > an issue that you have
> > to deal with. So now that the bug is known, I could live with it 
> > for really another 10
> > years. The important part is knowing this bug so I can work 
> > around it - if I hadn't
> > figured this out I would have blamed all my problems on myself. 
> 
> yep silent string truncation was not one of borlands smarter ideas. 

Having to check and guard each and every string operation is also not really
productive. K&R tried that :-)