On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 00:24, Martin <f...@mfriebe.de> wrote: > On 27/07/2010 13:53, Alexander Klenin wrote: > Not sure about the "by far" Sorry about that.
> to me one of the really important questions is: Should qualified unit > references in the source (outside the "uses") be allowed? > My answer is "no" => but that's only 2 cent (my 2 cent) I do not think it is so very important, but still: 1) I believe that arbitrary restrictions are confusing for a programmer and contrary to the orthogonality principle. 2) Consider what will actually happen: _everybody_ who needs this feature will have to write uses LCLForms = LCL.Forms, MyForms = My.Forms; ... LCLForms.TPosition ... MyForms.TPositions... i.e. in 90% of cases the alias will in fact be a concatenation of namespace and unit name. I see that as forcing programmer into unnecessary code duplication, which is bad IMO. -- Alexander S. Klenin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
