Just a guess, but the second one probably uses shortstring, rather than string.
Stacey > -----Original Message----- > From: John Christenhusz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, 12 November 2001 12:30 p.m. > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: [DUG]: Const > > > Hi all, > > Can anybody tell me the difference between the following two > declarations > and why you want to use the first one. The second one seems > to use less > memory! > > > const > sName : string = 'This is a test'; > > > and > > const > sName = 'This is a test'; > > > > TIA > > John. > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
