OOP_(re)

Tue, 3 Jun 1997 23:56:32 +0200 (MET DST)

According to Pierre Phaneuf:
> 
> According to myself (Peter Gerwinski):
> 
> > Okay for ordinal types, sets and pointers, not sure about Reals.
> > Strings initialized to zero this way are BROKEN because they get
> > a capacity of zero which makes them useless.  :-( That's one reason
> > why I would like to have `ShortString's in GPC.)
> 
> Ok, right, so FillChar() is a BAD idea... Ok! :-)

... except if you know exactly that no implicitly initialized types
- at the moment, these are File and Schema (including String) types -
are present in the object.  Since they don't belong there anyway
(pointers to Strings are better than Strings here), `FillChar' can
still be useful (while dangerous - which it is always).

At least a `BPcompat Objects' Unit *must* have this FillChar. :-|

Greetings,

    Peter

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