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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Anton Kavalenka wrote:

> 
> > Nothing stops you from doing this yourself.
> >
> > But for something as basic as text operations, I think this is bloat.
> >
> > Imagine that you would have to do
> >   I:=TInteger.Create(1);
> >   J:=TInteger.Create(2);
> >   I.Add(J);
> > What kind of language do you end up with then ? Utterly unreadable, and
> > slow, because heavily relying on the heap.
> >
> > Michael.
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> >
> >   
> Bad example
> Numbers are scalars
> Strings are vectors
> += operator in not so straightforward as for numbers.

bad example for you, but not for me: Handling strings should be as
easy as handling integers.

> 
> Who else except Pascal developers knows that s:=s1+s2 is the string
> concatenation and invokes lot of hidden stuff that is out of control.

This is the beauty of pascal: you don't need to know, and there should
be no need.

I once asked a C++ programmer how to read a file full of strings.
After 2 hourse he came to tell me he didn't know.

In Pascal, it takes about 1 minute to code, because strings are a 
basic type, handled on the stack. And rightly so.

Michael.