On 05.07.2019 10:52, Sven Barth via fpc-devel wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org
<mailto:mich...@freepascal.org>> schrieb am Fr., 5. Juli 2019, 10:47:
If memory serves well, FPC introduced this (before delphi) to be
able to import C enums with assigned values.
Correct. That is also why we allow both "=" and ":=" for the value
assignments. Because Delphi only supports one of the two and we picked
the other back then. ;)
Ignorant Delphi core developers have never checked how FPC does things
before implementing their own solution to keep compatibility ;) And then
they added ARC, then they removed ARC, they then added 0-based strings,
then they killed the product (AppMethod) they made it for...
Unfortunately the 0-based string features made it into FPC in
TStringHelper as well...
Ondrej
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