[fpc-pascal] Re: String type compatibility

[Sven Barth]

Am 03.04.2013 12:11, schrieb 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?
>
No, because all newer string types are not restricted in size (if you 
don't consider 2GB as a restriction :) ).

Regards,
Sven