I think you guys may be living in a 255 cave, simply because that's all we have to deal with at this time. Some say that ansistrings might be the way to go using sysutils - personally I think sysutils has no place in the compiler core and the compiler core should have tight custom units with no end user units like sysutils. One way to accomplish this, like I've already mentioned, is to use shortstring/longstring/array of string/ based Dos unit, using shortstrings where necessary, arrays of strings where necessary, and arrays of chars or longstrings where necessary. An array of char is just a dumb longstring, that's
Longstrings are not complex, but simply a lot of work to implement. You need to implement a lot of converters and overloads. Non of the core developpers see the usefullness so it isn't implemented.
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