On Wed, 30 Apr 1997 00:41:07 +0200 (MET DST) Peter Gerwinski peter@agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de wrote:
According to The African Chief:
According to Frank Heckenbach:
255 chars max length are sometimes not enough.
But you can use normal GPC strings for that.
Just my point: For applications where you need looooong strings, GPC's <=2GB strings with 8 bytes of overhead are perfect. In those cases where you must save space, 255 characters are fine - and they are compatible to UCSD and Borland Pascal.
Should it be `ShortString' or `ShortStr'? In analogy to `LongInt' instead of `LongInteger' I would vote for `ShortStr'; OTOH, Prospero's Extended Pascal compiler (PEP) has `ShortString' for this ...
Delphi also has "ShortString" - so perhaps we should use that.
Best regards, The Chief Dr Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief, and the Great Elephant) Author of: Chief's Installer Pro v3.12 for Win16 and Win32. Homepage: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/African_Chief/ E-mail: laa12@cc.keele.ac.uk