[fpc-devel] Free Pascal 2.6.2 rc1

[Michael Schnell]

On 11/13/2012 06:48 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>          * (for..in) Enumerators in records

(Not really on-topic, but how to communicate this decently ?)

IMHO it makes sense to design/provide (for..in) Enumerators in strings, 
providing one printable character after the other with respect to the 
actual coding.

IMHO this would be a decent way to help the users avoid the myString[i] 
notation, that asks for incompatibility between differently coded 
strings and between different fpc releases and between fpc and Delphi XE.

While, for speed sake, it does not seem to make sense to do an 
implementation of something similar to myString[i] in a "regarding 
printable-character" way, an enumerator offers no speed disadvantage and 
can be used in most of the cases we right now are inclined to do 
myString[i] (and very successfully did before Unicode was introduced).

Maybe this is possible by somehow providing the enumerator with the 
coding style before using it, while "string" is not a dynamically coded 
"NewString". With "NewString", it's rather obvious, how the enumerator 
should work. (And AFAI understand there will be a move to Strings to be 
Delphi XE compatible "NewStrings" by default some day soon.)

-Michael