Starting a new thread for a new topic. It's not that hard. On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 11:26:46 +0200 Michael Schnell via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> On 15.08.2017 18:33, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: > > Do you propose a string without the array operator [] ? > I don't understand what you mean by this. Every Delphi/FPC type has a bunch of operators. Strings support :=, =, <>, >=, <= and [] for read and write. When you propose a new string type "dynamicstring" you have to define these operators. Otherwise your proposal is not a string, but just a magic unicorn. > Of course an appropriate "char" type for each string encoding brand > could to be provided, hence a "CP_QWord Char" as an alias or a QWord. There is no QWord codepage. That would be confusing. > (Please keep in mind that in that paper (as explicitly pointed out) > "String" is not a synonym for "printable text" but for "sequence of > similar things". And here of course (at least in a 64 bit system) it's > extremely appropriate to allow for 64 bit elements. And of course this > is just a suggestion that could solve a certain class of problems but > needs a big effort to do and verify the modifications in the compiler > and the libraries.) Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
