[Lazarus] Delphi post-XE3 roadmap

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> On 29/08/12 09:54, Michael Schnell wrote:
>>
>> Nonetheless to me it seems like a nice idea to have String as a sibling
>> of TObjcet which in this case is somehow self-creating and freeing
>> (RefCounting = True) like an interfaced Object.
> 
> I'm working on exactly that (well, if I understood your message 
> correctly). It's just an experiment at the moment, but I have 
> implemented a IString interface which declares methods like Count(), 
> Length(), Replace(), Compare(), .SubStr(), .CharAt(), .CodepointAt() etc...

How do you intend to implement string operators?

AFAIK string concatenation "+" in .NET (and others?) is slow, instead 
it's suggested to use concatenation methods directly. The intermediate 
results in string expressions can cause much overhead.

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