On Fri, 5 Jul 2019, Ondrej Pokorny wrote:
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...
TStringHelper is for delphi compatibility, so there is no choice.
All in all, I am still of the opinion that the whole SysUtils unit is a
monster that should be taken apart and its functionality spread over various
units: StrUtils, DateUtils, IOUtils, Exceptions, Helpers.
Doing so would also release us from the need to be Delphi compatible in those
units. Alas, this is meanwhile a huge undertaking.
Michael.
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