[fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

[Jürgen Hestermann]

Am 2017-05-24 um 15:28 schrieb Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR):
 > Strings are a library feature, with syntax sugar on top of it. Nothing
 > stops you to implement Pascal-alike strings in C, minus the syntax sugar.
 > In fact I'm willing to bet, there are some libs out there already, ready
 > to be used. In fact, see what someone wrote about UTF-8 later in the
 > thread, pretty sure you can just pull in an UTF-8 string library in your
 > project and run with it...

Then why hasn't it been added to the C language definition yet?

At Turbo Pascal times I also added routines for variable length arrays
but because of getmem etc. I lost range checking etc.
It was an ugly hack (nevertheless the only way to handle such arrays at 
that time).

Now with dynamic arrays I am so much happier.

Why weren't such things added to C decades ago?
Strange.