Re: [fpc-pascal] BoolToStr

2022-08-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
On Mon, 29 Aug 2022, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote: Thanks for the discussion everyone, it does shed some light on what's going on. I agree it would be impossible to change it now, It was actually a GREAT idea to make it customizable, and that serves my needs just fine. I guess all

Re: [fpc-pascal] BoolToStr

2022-08-29 Thread James Richters via fpc-pascal
Thanks for the discussion everyone, it does shed some light on what's going on. I agree it would be impossible to change it now, It was actually a GREAT idea to make it customizable, and that serves my needs just fine. I guess all that's left is to update the documentation to show what it

Re: [fpc-pascal] BoolToStr

2022-08-29 Thread Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal
On 8/29/22 11:33, Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal wrote: Le 29/08/2022 à 01:41, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : If a special function is needed for some COM thing or weird Winapi thing, then that function should be part of the unit that needs it, not modifying the generic function

Re: [fpc-pascal] BoolToStr

2022-08-29 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 29/08/2022 à 01:41, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : If a special function is needed for some COM thing or weird Winapi thing, then that function should be part of the unit that needs it, not modifying the generic function intended to be used for general purpose applications output

Re: [fpc-pascal] BoolToStr

2022-08-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
On Sun, 28 Aug 2022, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote: I'm curious if there is a way to search the FPC version history of changes for BoolToStr to see why it was changed, and see if there is a valid reason not to change it back. it was obviously changed from the way the documentations is