Alexander Klenin schrieb: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 00:23, Marco van de Voort <[email protected]> wrote: >> Since we are close to 20 stringtypes + conversions now, I doubt that this is >> really the problem. > > Yes, I agree that the string types in FPC are a mess, > and judging by recent discussion, they are planned to became worse.
This happens if every string type someone could imagine is implemented ;) > >> Is having 6 levels of information >> hiding (private,public,strict protected, strict private,protected,published) >> or are the strict* ones just to stop the whining of people that come from >> other languages? > > No, it is not necessary, but handy sometimes. I agree that these are > not a big deal, > and FPC can live without them quite fine, but they do not break anything > either. The problem is: every language needs testing and maintainance. And even simple language features can have interferences with other code nobody might see at a first glance. Anyways, as I said, new language features are ok if they come as a proper patch with tests and docs. _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
