On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:15:14 +0100 Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de> wrote:
> > The language has evolved and short string is mostly a historical > > remain. > > Definitely not! ShortString and AnsiStrings (and all other variants > of string types) are just different ways to work with strings. Using > ShortStrings you can avoid a lot of problems which you can have with > AnsiStrings if you don't have the need for strings longer than 255 > characters. > > What I would critisize is the use of the generic type "string" at > all. Mapping this to different types dependend on compiler switches > or whatever is a can of worms. I would prefer that one of the clear > genuine string types is used directly. Lots of code is dependend on > the string type. That's why you can set the mode for each unit or via a switch for each package/project. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
