[fpc-pascal] The world is ending (was: Warning not to use the "String" type with FPC 3.x)

Jonas Maebe jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be
Mon May 9 21:34:30 CEST 2016


Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Now some would say, simply switch your compiler mode to DelphiUnicode.
> But I don't want to do that, because I like the stricter ObjFPC mode,
> and prefer ObjFPC's syntax.

While still missing in the documentation, you can already do that with 
{$modeswitch unicodestrings}.

And please stop this nonsense about how dangerous the String type in FPC 
3.x supposedly is, after I've explained several times in this thread 
already how it's just as dangerous in FPC 2.6.x.


Jonas



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