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

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 9/9/08, Anton Kavalenka <anton.k at tut.by> wrote:
>  The Pascal huge strings always annoy me.
>  Since - it is IMPLICIT automatic object with set of overloaded methods,
> length and reference count fields etc hidden from developer.
>
>  In near future we geat a Zoo of the strings:
>  AnsiString, WideString, UnicodeString, ShortString, PWideChar, PChar
>  Some of them with encoding field.

I have to say I agree with you.... The Object Pascal / Delphi language
already has way to many string types!  At it's just getting worse.

I've always liked the Java style of everything being an object - even
the string type.


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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