On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 1. Currently there is this huge work going on to get trunk to a reasonable > and usable shape again and until that is done (and maybe RTL changes as > well) it is (in my opinion (!) ) not reasonable to think about changing the > meaning of "string" at all.
It does not change the meaning of string everywhere, just in 1 source file at a time. > 2. As Marco wrote in this mail > http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-devel/2011-October/026667.html it is > not free of problems to just change the default meaning of "string" using a > define, switch, compiler option or whatever. I would say that people that use the define then can deal with the problems which it causes. For me it causes much less work then to rename everywhere with "string" There is no easy way out, but I think that the directive solution would work well for Lazarus apps. For inheritance we could define in system something like: RTLString = string; It would not need to be used anywhere in the RTL, but files which use the utf8string directive can use this string type to reffer to the RTL string type. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
