[fpc-devel] new string - question on usage

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Michael Schnell schrieb:

> In fact the var parameter case is most interesting regarding new strings.
> 
> While in the other cases the system can decide at runtime what do do 
> (with respect to the encoding ID (s) ), with a var parameter the type 
> names might be used to generate an error message at compile time.

Almost every required conversion can be determined at compile time. The 
only uncertain case is a result (or other source) of type RawByteString.

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