On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote:
On 15.08.2017 12:15, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote:
What does S[2] mean in your proposal ? Is it 1, 2, 4 or even 8 bytes ?
Regarding the users' appreciation, the S[x] notation is decently
incompatible between the different string types and compiler versions.
Of course not.
It's 1 byte for ansistring, 2 bytes for widestring.
The point is that the compiler knows how many bytes it is based on the
declaration of S. In your proposal, it is dynamic, if I understand it
correctly.
There were hundreds of complains in all the appropriate forums and
mailing list.
Complaints about what exactly ?
So not much additional harm can be done, anyway.
I suggest that it should be according to the character_size definition
stored S, and the operation c := S[x] should transfer the appropriate
count of bits, provided the type of c allows for taking them.
As far as I understand your proposal, this currently cannot be done ?
The compiler needs to know the S[X] size at compile time.
Michael.
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