[fpc-devel] new string - question on usage

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Jonas Maebe schrieb:
> On 11 Oct 2011, at 00:06, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote:
> 
>> On 10/10/2011 17:56, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>>> On 10 Oct 2011, at 22:11, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 1- Most of LCL must be code page agnostic, so not use
>>>> UTF8String/AnsiString directly (keep String)
>>> There is no difference between ansistring and string in {$mode
>>> delphi} and {$mode objfpc}
>> OK. There's just one problem using $mode to define the string
>> behavior: say you have a component written in {$mode delphi}. Than
>> code written in {$mode delphiunicode} uses that library.
> 
> That is no more a problem than using code using string in {$h-} mode
> with code using string in {$h+} mode.

IMO {$h} should be dropped, since the compiler is the only application 
that still uses ShortStrings. At least the default should be {$h+} 
nowadays, and the compiler should warn or hint whenever a $h directive 
is found in source code.

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