In our previous episode, Thaddy said: > > > Yes, but that defeats unit aliasing by renaming: like "uses foo in > "bar.pas"" instead of "uses foo" (implies "in foo.pas"). Did somebody > mention this in the discussion?
> Programmers are not very imaginative in naming. It is plainly helpfull > to be able to rename a file if another file with a different content..... I really wonder what the point is of such hack. You still have to walk all references to add ( in ' '), so you might as well do a proper rename. In the past it was sometimes used to have long unit names refer to 8.3 filenames, but I haven't really cared about 8.3 for almost a decade now. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel