I wonder if I could ask a silly question. My understanding is that
strings are pretty much unique in not being objects, and relying on a
fair amount of compiler and RTL wizardry to handle reference counting etc.
I note somebody at Embarcadero blogging [Paraphrase follows] "Delphi is
being enhanced by adding memory management features such as reference
counting".
Would there be any advantage in reimplementing strings as a tree of
classes, with the compiler doing appropriate things to change e.g. Pos()
into String.Pos(), UnicodeString.Pos() or whatever as appropriate?
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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