[Lazarus] OFF-TOPIC: Naming of char [[[Re: Debugging the unicode RTL]]]

Martin Frb lazarus at mfriebe.de
Sun Jan 22 12:39:05 CET 2023


On 22/01/2023 11:53, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote:
> Since the PChar/Char types are now an alias, logically the debug info 
> should only have references to AnsiChar/UnicodeChar.

Well technically neither of them is (always) an actual character.

They should be called

AnsiCodepoint
UniCodeCodePoint

So people will be reminded that they do not contain characters (they may 
by coincidence, but software should not be build on coincidence)

But that is just my personal 2cent.


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