[fpc-pascal] FPC + Mobile development: the String type

[leledumbo]

> IMHO a substituting bad with worse is not a good reason. Java/CIL needs
this 
> because its strings are immutable, and character access is expensive. We 
> don't share, nor plan to share that trait. 

I hope so, and with Delphi plans on making strings immutable in the future,
I hope FPC doesn't follow. Otherwise, simple string concatenation loop will
need to be changed to use string buffers, which makes it more error prone,
more typing and more resource eating.



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