Am 2016-04-18 um 11:33 schrieb Sven Barth:

Am 18.04.2016 07:58 schrieb "Jürgen Hestermann" <juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de 
<mailto:juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de>>:
> And why was a directive implemented to use 0-based indices
> even for strings but none for 1-based indices in dynamic arrays?
> IMO the latter would be much more desired.

The usual reason: Delphi compatibility. If Delphi wouldn't have that directive, 
we wouldn't have that either, because most others are content with the indices 
as they are.


Seems that whenever something goes into the wrong
direction then always Delphi is the culprit. ;-(

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