On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Jolyon Smith <jsm...@deltics.co.nz> wrote: > Jeremy: > >> Separate Ansi and Unicode VCLs are not a viable solution. > > Straw man argument (but incidentally, do you believe separate Windows > specific and X-Platform VCL's *ARE* a viable solution? hmmmm...?) ;)
Have never made public my opinion on this direction. I do my iPhone programming in Objective-C and my .NET programming in C# though. > And incidentally I for one never advocated dual ANSI/Wide VCL's... some > people seem to think that was the only other option, but I believe they are > mistaken. > > If you read my blog you would know that because I've explained my view on > this before (for some reason people seem to prefer to come up with their own > ideas about what I think). > > ;) Don't flatter yourself. I don't really care what you think at all ;-) > With a bit of thought I believe the VCL could have "gone Unicode" without > requiring that application code be dragged along with it. Delphi did it > before with String -> LongString... the Delphi 2.0 VCL went unilaterally > LongString but left applications with the choice. > > > Before dismissing the notion out of hand, consider that what you (and > Embarcadero) suggest in search/replacing String for ANSIString and Char to > ANSIChar etc is essentially exactly what a project "String > ANSIString" vs > "String > UnicodeString" compiler switch would have achieved (search your > feelings... you know it's -almost- true), except that a compiler switch > would have made it easier to apply (and change) across a project! How would such a solution work with runtime packages? Two different packages? What about component vendors, IDE experts writers? What if I want both (ansi and unicode in the one application), then I'm using the explicit types anyway. cheers, Jeremy _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
