[fpc-devel] But what /is/ a string?

[Michael Schnell]

On 08/24/2012 03:14 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>
> Would there be any advantage in reimplementing strings as a tree of 
> classes,

If in future TObject is reference (as it might be in a future Delphi 
version, according to an Embarcadero blog) counting (and thus using 
.Free is not mandatory any more), it seems very appropriate to have 
String be a sibling of TObject.

-Michael