Re: I really hate .NET especially inside Delphi

"Dave Nottage [TeamB]" <rot13.qnivqa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4529e704@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Me wrote:

QC Bug 7392

I cancelled my other post, but it seems it's still a misunderstanding
rather than a bug. You might like to follow this discussion:


http://groups.google.com.au/group/borland.public.delphi.language.delphi.
dotnet/msg/97dbaeafbd46d4b8?hl=en&


If you mean a misunderstanding by Danny Thorpe then I would agree with you -
see the discussion archived on Tamaracka:

1. Goto www.tamaracka.com


2. Search Borland newsgroups for 'StringReader problem D8'


3. Click on view by thread.



Tim Jarvis just said "Delphi complies with the CLR and the CLS specs (if it
doesn't anywhere then thats a bug and will be fixed) that makes it by
definition a 1st class citizen of the .NET world"

QC 7392 is an example of where Delphi does not comply with the .NET CLR

<quote>
By definition, any string, including the empty string (""), compares greater
than a null reference, and two null references compare equal to each other.
</quote>

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemStringClassTopic.asp

When comparing a blank string with nil for equality, Delphi reports true.

--
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp



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