Short strings (Was: Modifying string length?)

Wed, 30 Apr 1997 00:41:07 +0200 (MET DST)

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 ...

    Peter

  Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
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