El 22/07/2016 a las 17:56, Jonas Maebe escribió: > > There is no hidden secret knowledge. Everything is documented and the > information is linked from the release notes. The "principle of least > surprise" has been applied in the sense that we didn't invent our own > system that introduces small or large differences compared to how > Delphi behaves in the same situation (and if there are differences, > then those are bugs in our implementation).
With hidden knowledge I don't mean it's not documented, I mean that's like small print in contracts. Only those who know there is trick with adding are going to check manual. Complex things and pushing the language to its limits could require reading manual, adding two strings shouldn't. MyString := expression I really shouldn't need to know if right expression uses '+', or the result of a function, or '*', to guess what MyString type is. In addition, changing the codepage on the fly if a bad idea. If I cant change the codepage dynamically (I don't like it, but let's live with it), let me assign it explicitly, don't change it on the fly. SetCodePage(MyString,win1252); MyString := AnsiToUTF8(Ansi1 + Ansi2); // Automatically converted to Win-1252 before assign MyString := AnsiToUTF8(Ansi1) + AnsiToUTF8(Ansi2); // Automatically converted to Win-1252 before assign SetCodePage(MyString,utf8); MyString := AnsiToUTF8(Ansi1 + Ansi2); // No conversion needed MyString := AnsiToUTF8(Ansi2) + AnsiToUTF8(Ansi2); // No conversion needed MyString := Ansi1 + Ansi2; // Automatically converted to Utf8 before assign None changes the codepage of the String but me I don't like automatic conversion, but let's live with it. But I think that automatic change of var type is really wrong. This is Pascal, not bash or PHP. -- Saludos Santiago A. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
