Alexander Klenin schrieb: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 07:03, Marco van de Voort <[email protected]> wrote: >> Well, you can nearly impossibly miss the sliding slope there. First just >> strings, then hashing to speed it up, then wildcards, then demand for regex >> etc. > This is generic argument applicable to any language feature. > "Sliding slopes" are everywhere, so the safest course of action is not > to move at all. > This is what I am ranting about, excessive conservatism leading to a > stagnation.
You can rant about it if we reject a patch adding case with strings ;) I'am quite sure, a good patch (clear definition of the scope, support for all string types, clear definition how the strings are interpreted, tests) to implement it won't be rejected. _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
