Marco van de Voort schrieb: > In our previous episode, Florian Klaempfl said: >>> Still, best solution has been to put everything into one big file. And >>> still, >>> I don't like that compiler forces such a thing. >> The compiler forces you many other things. Still, I don't get what's the >> problem with a large unit if it's really needed (and nothing like >> abstract base classes or interfaces or type casts or ... helps). Stuff >> closely depending on each other should end in the same unit. You even >> cannot test a unit with external circular class references without the >> other involved units. So why should the stuff be separated? > > I don't like extremely large (> few thousand lines) units from an overview > perspective.
One can also say a lot of small files make it hard to find stuff (remember the people to complain about the huge amount of files of the fpc rtl :)?). With a good ide you don't care about this anymore: it works the same with a lot of small files or one huge file. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
