Maurizio Lotauro wrote: > Scrive Arno Garrels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Maurizio Lotauro wrote: >>> >>> What you described is more or less what I expected with that kind of >>> changes in the compiler. I expected similar problems with the >>> introduction of 64 bit. >> >> CG did a rather good job to make conversion of existing applications >> to Unicode as easy as possible. > > [...] > > Only to clarify :-) > My was not a critic to CG. This kind of changes certainly will have > some side effects, but, we say, it is the minor of the harm, or it is > a necessary harm.
It depends very much on your code. At least it 'forces' developers to write cleaner code ;-) And I must admit that I appreciate this educational side effect :) > >> Though >> this is a strong feature it also means that any code that used >> strings as binary buffer, or assumed 1 byte = 1 char did no longer >> work :( >> And ICS assumed that rather frequently ;-) > > I think (and fear ;) that it is not the only one. That is IMO the major one. -- Arno > I excepted an arrangement period, for Delphi and third party. > > Bye, Maurizio. > > ---------------------------------------------------- > This mail has been sent using Alpikom webmail system > http://www.alpikom.it -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
