[Lazarus] String vs WideString

[Michael Schnell]

On 15.08.2017 22:45, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
>  How is that not "abuse"???
IMHO it's a major shortcoming to define "string" as "printable text". In 
fact the name "String" does not suggest this at all. A "string" in my 
understanding just is a  sequence of similar "things".

> A string type was definitely not the right choice.
Notwithstanding the discussion about the mere wording, this only would 
hold, if the system would provide a differently named non "printable 
text" basic type that comes with the features needed for such usage: 
reference counting, lazy copy, simple operators for concatenating and 
element extraction and replacement, built-in function for substring 
locating, ...

-Michael