[fpc-pascal] String conversions

[Ben Grasset]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 5:36 PM Ryan Joseph <genericptr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes indeed. FPC already has an overwhelming amount of string types. As I
> said though a SetCapacity option for growing would be nice (for dynamic
> arrays also) because += is such a common operation. As it stands I often
> don’t use dynamic arrays (and now ansistring) because of growing
> limitations, which is a shame really.
>

Well, I think the idea is that stuff like capacity is what you'd have / do
have in actual containers built *around* strings and / or dynamic arrays,
as they're both just built in primitives.
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