Re: Time for some psz lessons????

Malcolm, 
>> Second: i'd expect VO each time it uses your construct to
>> internally perform a RegisterKid, so if the GC moves the
>> string the pointer will
>> be updated .
>    y:=psz(_cast, x)
>means forget everything you knew about x and treat it as a
>psz and store it is y
Yep. But look back to the beginning of the thread: Marc wrote 
PSZ( myVar) - not _cast...
So, imo, it would  make sense, when the compiler looks at myVar, to
try to check its type (should be string, after all) and does a
registerkid.
>    registerkid(@y...)
>    y:=psz(_cast, x)
>means y is a pointer to dynamic memory, update it whenever
>you move the memory whose address is stored in y, put the address
>of the string in y.
>
>So you only get registerkid for static datatypes (or dynamic datatypes
>in static structs) when you ask for it.
>
Karl