El 15/08/17 a les 22:45, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus ha escrit:
On 2017-08-15 20:22, Luca Olivetti via Lazarus wrote:
Wait a minute, why "abuse"?
After all, before code aware strings, an ansistring could store any kind
of arbitrary data with no problem and no conversion, and made it
extremely easy
Just listen to what you are saying.... A string type and you want to
store all kinds of non-string related data in that type. How is that not
"abuse"??? Use a TBytes, TStream or other binary byte based storage
mechanism. A string type was definitely not the right choice.
A "string" was just a handy container for bytes so I think it was the
right choice for storing, er, bytes.
Bye
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