Jonas Maebe schrieb:
Furthermore, at least two of "the users" have already posted in this thread saying that they use this functionality (both in FPC and in Delphi). Therefore I don't think it is a good idea to remove or change it.
ACK. My concern is about new users with (possibly) new uses of that construct, that will not work with the current implementation. We should cleary state that the use of the "in" feature is not recommended in new projects, and its use may lead to unexpected results.
If different functionality is desired, I think it's better to add a different construct rather than using the same construct but with a different meaning.
I don't think that unit aliasing requires a new construct. In technical terms it only affects the (one-time) comparison of the file and unit name. It *may* have more consequences, like the determination of the source file (name) from a unit name in an IDE, but I don't think that the required changes (if ever) would exceed similar comparisons. But all such considerations can be postponed, till a real and broad need for such a feature exists, or until a user comes up with an according patch.
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