Re: Tiburón and FastCode

Dennis wrote:

Hi

Perhaps because in the ol'days "string" was all there was?

OK

I am still shuddering at the thought of modifying all the apps I
have coded with plain ol' string. <sigh>

I am not sure it will to hard. CodeGear has probably done a lot of
work to make the transition to Unicode easy.

What if you simply make a search and replace on string -> AnsiString
- will everything just work as before?

Yes, and no. Also Char, PChar etc. must be replaced. Then, since the
library routines like Format or Trim will probably return
UnicodeStrings, what if you replace all occurrences of string with
AnsiString?

var
S, T: AnsiString;
begin
S := ' Hello ';
T := Format(S);

This will cause two conversions: S will be converted to UnicodeString,
passed to Format, and the result of Format must be converted back.

I'd rather see new routines for Char (<-- WideChar).
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