On 2017-08-15 23:41, Luca Olivetti via Lazarus wrote:
A "string" was just a handy container for bytes so I think it was the right choice for storing, er, bytes.
The type "String" has always been an alias to another type, and could mean many things. eg: ShortString, AnsiString, and now UnicodeString. Making the assumption that it will always be a container for byte sized data was wrong.
In hind sight, using TBytes or TMemoryStream and it would have been very clear that it is a storage container for byte sized data, and no automatic conversion (by the compiler) would be done to data stored in such containers.
Don't worry though, you were not alone in making that wrong assumption. Many Delphi developers have made that mistake, and some are still making that mistake today.
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