On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Anton Kavalenka wrote:
> > > Nothing stops you from doing this yourself. > > > > But for something as basic as text operations, I think this is bloat. > > > > Imagine that you would have to do > > I:=TInteger.Create(1); > > J:=TInteger.Create(2); > > I.Add(J); > > What kind of language do you end up with then ? Utterly unreadable, and > > slow, because heavily relying on the heap. > > > > Michael. > > _______________________________________________ > > fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org > > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel > > > > > Bad example > Numbers are scalars > Strings are vectors > += operator in not so straightforward as for numbers. bad example for you, but not for me: Handling strings should be as easy as handling integers. > > Who else except Pascal developers knows that s:=s1+s2 is the string > concatenation and invokes lot of hidden stuff that is out of control. This is the beauty of pascal: you don't need to know, and there should be no need. I once asked a C++ programmer how to read a file full of strings. After 2 hourse he came to tell me he didn't know. In Pascal, it takes about 1 minute to code, because strings are a basic type, handled on the stack. And rightly so. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
