Hi all,
I know short strings (255 character limit, 0 index containing the length) have been discussed to death, and I'm not going to discuss them further, but I did want to point out for those of you not on the MacPascal mailing list that everyone asking "Which should I use, FPC or GPC?" is basically ending up with FPC primarily because of lack of short string support.
I have nothing against FPC, and indeed the developers have been great at supporting Mac compatibility and so forth.
But since I use GPC, and since GPC has lots of really cool other features (like long Strings for example ;-), I'd love to encourage people to use GPC. I personally believe the little extra work required to use wrappers for when short strings are needed is no big deal, but it's hard to argue that "its just a little more work" to a developer who is already faced with making a big change in their environment and code.
So basically, I'm just saying that the lack of short strings is seriously hindering GPC adoption on the Mac, and that that should probably be taken in to account when pondering the priority of their implementation.
Thanks, Peter.