> In our previous episode, Ludo Brands said:
> > When you are thinking of using JSON you can use AnsiString as the
> > internal format eventually adding a datatype tag to avoid
> conversion
> > data loss as much as possible.
>
> ansistring is a decimal type. This incurs a binary to decimal
> c
In our previous episode, Ludo Brands said:
> When you are thinking of using JSON you can use AnsiString as the internal
> format eventually adding a datatype tag to avoid conversion data loss as
> much as possible.
ansistring is a decimal type. This incurs a binary to decimal conversion per
se (wh
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Ludo Brands wrote:
>> > Or define an internal storage format and convert the
>> different types
>> > to that format. That is also what variants are doing. The
>> difference
>> > is that variants have pre-defined assignment routines and
>> conversions
>> > between th