[fpc-pascal] Is it save to think default value of untouched string is ''?

[Jonas Maebe]

On 06 Mar 2010, at 21:13, lyh1 wrote:

> My question is we should always assign null string to variable before use or
> this a bug if I get garbage in unused string?

If you want Delphi-compatible behaviour, you must add {$mode delphi} at the top of your program. In the default mode, "string" is an alias for shortstring instead of ansistring ({$h-} mode).


Jonas