On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl> wrote: > In our previous episode, Fl?vio Etrusco said: >> compatibility feature, and as such should care more about correctness >> and ease-of-use rather than performance. I thought the endless bugs >> WRT to char vs codepoint indexes, even in Java-developed software, >> would buy my argument... > > IMHO you are seeking the problems in the tools, while the problem is PEBKAC
I partly agree it's PEBKAC, but why make it easy to get wrong when you can avoid it? Isn't that the point of Pascal? Isn't that the point of AnsiStrings? Isn't that the point of strong typed languages in general? > The base principle should be to mess with strings as little as possible, in > that sense you are right. > > I don't like the Java/C# way that you have to manually allocate extra > objects (stringbuilders etc) to get(performant) access to the characters > though. At least we are not tied by bytecode & VM, so I think we can make better ;-) Is it unthinkable to have the basic/native string type an object? Best regards, Flávio _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
