Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, Ivo Steinmann said:
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Why not creating a new kind of managed class, that is refcounted,
initialized, finalized, etc... like String type?
I never liked string-types as classes. They feel like cheap imitations of a
real string type.
OK, then we name it objects (or records with methods)
Before you know it you are messing with special stringbuilder classes and
special syntax to keep a semblance of performance. Moreover I don't really
see what this solves.
It solves the case that you want to have records/objects with non
standard inatialisation/finalisation code. Refcounted assignments etc.
If this were possible, I would have used in for the utf enconding of
strings and for the wincontrol.handle/reference in lazarus.
Marc
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