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In article <3475d1e1.10629295@forums.borland.com> of Tue, 18 Nov 1997
17:37:01 in borland.public.turbopascal, "J. W. Rider (TeamB)"
<jw_rider@usa.net> wrote:
>On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 17:55:21 +0000, Dr John Stockton
><jrs@merlyn.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>It seems to me that Delete is sometimes implemented as Copy(Start),
>>Copy(Tail), Concat(Start, Tail); and that there should be a better way
>>just involving Move(Tail).
>
>I'm kind of surprised that the BP7 Delete would have been implemented
>like that.  A quick check in Delphi shows that Delphi does it the
>faster way.


ISTM that it was.  I am vexed that I did not think that Insert is the
opposite of Delete; but ISTM that the situation is similar in BP7.

Doubtless one can replace Insert (Copy Concat Copy Concat) with Inject
(Move Move) likewise.
 
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