On 12/17/2012 04:29 PM, Sven Barth wrote:
From what I see so far of the route that Embarcadero takes (complete reimplementation of compiler, sudden appearence of "type helpers" and things like "zero based strings") I predict that we'll reach a point in the near(!) future where we won't (be able to) follow Delphi's lead anymore.
I suppose Unicode strings could be done better in a (slightly) incompatible way. (e.g. allowong for as well decently code-agnostic (never converted) RawByte, RawWord and RawDWord strings as for decently dynamically coded "Flexy-Strings" that are auto-converted when necessary), with a decent definition of what happens when Normal (predefined coding) String Types, "Raw" and "Flexi" strings are used in combination.
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