Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Are there pros or cons to either?
The fashion of the day. Apparently, programmers are (supposed to be) not intelligent enough to work with pointers themselves -- if needed. So the compiler does that for you and declares everything a pointer automatically. Same with "magic" types such as PChar and "AnsiString". Poor man's programming in my view, but as said, that's the fashion of the day.
Needless to say that a program where the programmer does have full control himself (and uses that to the advantage) is both faster and more reliable than a program where things are handled "automagically".
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