On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:53:00 +0100 Hans-Peter Diettrich <[email protected]> wrote:
>[...] > > Correction: *This* Char type needs to be extended. > > Please specify. The ThousandSeparator type is "Char", which does not work with Russian in UTF-8. Well, at least if you want the non breakable space instead of the normal space. There are many cases where Char is enough. >[...] > "Char" in general is very useful. > ...> > >> at least if it has less > >> than 3 bytes (4 for UTF-8). There exist many more flaws in the RTL/LCL, > >> assuming that a character always fits into a Char (like the Pos > >> overload...). > > > > There is a Pos overload for strings. Where is the flaw in Pos? > > The flaw is the added overload with a Char parameter. I use that a lot. It is faster than the string variant. Why is that a flaw? > Furthermore the Pos arguments should never be subject to automatic > conversion, otherwise the returned index will be useless. You can argue the same way in the direction: If it does not automatically convert it will find crap. > >> In the best case Char could be retyped into an string (substring), > > > > That would be wrong in 99.9% of the cases. > > Please give at least one example. Retype "Char" to "String" and the compiler will bark. For example in Graphics. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
