[Lazarus] String vs WideString

[Sven Barth]

Am 17.08.2017 12:17 schrieb "Bart via Lazarus" <
lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org>:
>
> On 8/17/17, Sven Barth via Lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>
> >> really? delphi came from TP/BP... i was (still am, actually) using
> > dynamic arrays in TP6 ;)
> >
> > Dynamic arrays in the form of "array of Type" were only introduced in
> > Delphi 3 if I remember correctly. Anything before that needed manual
memory
> > management.
>
> I had D3 Pro, and this did definitively NOT support dynamic arrays.
> (Even String still was ShortString.)
> All arrays had to be fixed range.
> The often used construct to bypass this limitation was: Array[0..0] of
> TSomeType and have Range checking of.

Then it was Delphi 4 ^^'

Regards,
Sven
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