[fpc-devel] new string - question on usage

[Sven Barth]

Am 13.10.2011 10:34, schrieb Alex Shishkin:
> 13.10.2011 11:30, Sven Barth пишет:
>> Am 13.10.2011 04:30, schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich:
>>> Martin Schreiber schrieb:
>>>
>>>>> Well, with Delphi 2009's Unicode support, the Delphi language now
>>>>> supports Unicode too. Thus unit names, class names, property names,
>>>>> variable names etc can all contain Unicode text in there names. So
>>>>> yes,
>>>>> Unicode is required throughout the Object Pascal language, and FPC
>>>>> Compiler.
>>>>
>>>> Is this desirable? What is the benefit of non ASCII Pascal identifiers
>>>> at the expense of performance and simplicity?
>>>
>>> Perhaps it's an attempt to better interface with .NET, Java or
>>> ObjectiveC?
>>
>> I don't think so as AFAIK all three don't support unicode characters in
>> identifiers.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sven
>>
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> According to ECMA-335 "Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), 5th edition
> chapter 8.5.1" .NET allow unicode in identifiers.

So much for my "AFAIK"... ^^ Thanks for clarification.

Regards,
Sven