Short strings (Was: Modifying string length?)_(re)

Wed, 30 Apr 1997 09:34:11 +0100 (BST)

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