[Lazarus] Making sources compatible with Delphi (but Lazarus is priority)

[Michael Schnell]

On 04.05.2017 16:56, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote:
> I believe everybody is happy to get rid of the horrendous Windows
If if this is true, there is a decent need for backwards compatibility. 
That is why, theoretically, code aware strings is a good idea. 
Unfortunately the implementation of those, IMHO, is abysmal, as well in 
Delphi, as in fpc. (Most obvious drawback: not flexibly typed TStrings.)

-Michael