Graeme Geldenhuys wrote on Wed, 11 May 2016:
On 2016-05-11 09:58, Jonas Maebe wrote:
It does not avoid "the issues". All that modeswitch does is make
"String" an alias for "Unicodestring" in the declaring module.
Am I correct in understanding that it only affects individual units. So
using it in my application, it would not affect the meaning of String in
the RTL for instance (String in the RTL still means
AnsiString(<whatever_default_codepage>) )?
Indeed, just like any other {$mode xxx} and {$modeswitch xxx}
directive. I don't think we have any directive or switch that can
cross compilation unit boundaries.
Technically, it would also be very hard to make e.g. {$modeswitch
unicodestring} affect other units that you use. After all, the source
code for those other units may not be available, and they would have
to be recompiled if the meaning of "string" changed in their source
code.
Jonas
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