----- Original Message ----- From: "peter green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "FPC developers' list" <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 7:24 PM
Subject: RE: [fpc-devel] ansistrings and widestrings
it should be noted that pascal classes are really not suited to doing strings.
to do strings with classes you really need language features which fpc doesn't have.
doing strings with non garbage collected heap based classes would make something that was as painfull to work with as pchars and that was totally different from any string handling pascal has seen before.
Yes, classes are not suitable here, but FPC already allows mechanizm to redefine string handling with Get / SetWideStringManager. This can be extended / reworked to include short, wide and ansi string comparition routines.
just as pascal doesn't consider two strings with different cases to be equal it should probbablly not consider two strings of unicode code points to be equal unless they are binary equivilent.
But comparision is not only equal / nonequal, but "bigger" and "lesser" too !
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