[fpc-pascal] Re: String type compatibility

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

leledumbo wrote:
>> BTW, recently there are many discussions about language features, now I
> would like to ask one question, why the following is not supported in
> pascal:
> 
> procedure SomeThing(AParam: array[0..10] of Integer);
> 
> or 
> 
> procedure SomeThing(Aparam: string[10]);
> 
> But you have to define a custom type first?
> 
> Delphi compatibility and something else (should be documented on the wiki,
> but I forgot on which release).

I wonder if I could ask a related question. I was looking at some parser 
code yesterday that I wrote years ago, and that still compiles with TP5, 
TopSpeed and so on. It's got a couple of underlying string[255] 
declarations: is there a 16-bit Unicode equivalent which uses this syntax?

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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