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

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Mon Sep 1 13:40:48 CEST 2008


In our previous episode, Ivo Steinmann said:
> > fpc-devel maillist  -  fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org
> > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
> >
> >   
> Why not creating a new kind of managed class, that is refcounted, 
> initialized, finalized, etc... like String type?

I never liked string-types as classes. They feel like cheap imitations of a
real string type.

Before you know it you are messing with special stringbuilder classes and
special syntax to keep a semblance of performance. Moreover I don't really
see what this solves.



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