[Lazarus] Easiest way to "case" strings

[Marco van de Voort]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 02:27:03AM +1000, Alexander Klenin wrote:
> Of course no.
> 
> > I don't think that these can be solved in a satisfying manner on a language level.
> 
> Generally, I feel that FPC is a bit too conservative. I understand
> that a healthy dose if
> skepticism is a good thing for language design, but IMHO it was taken
> too far lately.

Well, you can nearly impossibly miss the sliding slope there. First just
strings, then hashing to speed it up, then wildcards, then demand for regex
etc. And everytime the same references to other interpreted languages that
do such things.

In general the Wirthian philosophy was limitation to the basics, and
Pascal's direct successor language (modula2) is actually smaller.