[fpc-pascal] Any chance to add the TStringBuilder to FCL?

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Mon Apr 18 09:53:12 CEST 2016


In our previous episode, J?rgen Hestermann said:
>  > in loops. (it is that way in M2 btw, where the basetype is unsigned. Not
>  > happy with that)
> 
> I don't know what you mean.
> A For-loop has it's limits anyway.

Limits like in

for i:=0 to someexpression.count-1 

are evaluated as expression before using the result to for. If count=0 this
would become for i:=0 to $FFFFFFFF, so you need to guard this with a if
count>0 then.

This is a common construct so quite annoying.



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