On 9/9/08, Anton Kavalenka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Pascal huge strings always annoy me. > Since - it is IMPLICIT automatic object with set of overloaded methods, > length and reference count fields etc hidden from developer. > > In near future we geat a Zoo of the strings: > AnsiString, WideString, UnicodeString, ShortString, PWideChar, PChar > Some of them with encoding field.
I have to say I agree with you.... The Object Pascal / Delphi language already has way to many string types! At it's just getting worse. I've always liked the Java style of everything being an object - even the string type. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel