On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:47:58 +0200
Sven Barth via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

>[...]
> The main problem of such a dynamic type would be the inability to do fast
> indexing as the compiler would need to insert runtime checks for the size
> of a character. I had already thought the same, but then had to discard the
> idea due to this.

IMHO the main problem of adding a new string type is
https://xkcd.com/927/

Mattias
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