[fpc-pascal] Re: String type compatibility

[Noah Silva]

Hi,

If you want a 16bit version, then probably WideString? UTF8String is better
for many purposes though.  (Though in FPC is is currently just an alias to
AnsiString).

Thank you,
    Noah Silva

2013/4/3 Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.fpc-pascal at telemetry.co.uk>

> 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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