Re: AfxMessageBox?

Why didn't they do this?
Because "Hello" and L"Hello" are both standard C/C++.
Making "Hello" to mean Unicode string means the compiler
is not standard compliant.

The MS compilers moved towards being more standard compliant lately
(and is a good thing).

Plus there are situations when one might want to use narrow strings
in an Unicode application. If "Hello" means Unicode, then what?


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