Am 24.06.2013 16:59, schrieb Michael Schnell: > I just have been told that Embarcadero plans to do away with the stuff > fpc is just implementing in the "Unicode branch" and is on the verge to > change to a completely new String type that is > - UTF-16-only, > - Zero-Based, and > - immutable. > And thus completely incompatible with any "String" Type ever known in > Pascal. > > So > - why do we discuss compatibility at all ?
FPC is a community approach so compatibility is implemented by those being interested in it. > - do we like this (rather complex and not at all "straight forward") > String type that much that it is viable to implement, debug and decently > document this library ? > > -Michael > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus