Agreed, but, many things in .NET interfere with how things work in Pascal. The .NET way of modular programming is totally different compared with the Pascal unit system, therefore it would function as an "alien".
I came from Delphi (my last Delphi is the Turbo Delphi) before I switch totally to FPC/Laz and Ubuntu. I must admit that Delphi way of thinking still affects me. I even still use it since FPC has very well compatibility with Delphi in Delphi mode.
Though I don't intend to use dot as namespace, but I disagree if it is totally an alien to pascal. Delphi does it very well on this. This fact alone is enough to show that pascal is quiet friendly to dot namespace. So, why FPC can't? At least by supporting it in Delphi mode.
What should be done is, that if the .NET namespace stuff provides advantages, the Pascal unit system should be logically extended to provide such functionality, rather than duplicate the .NET way of modular programming.
I don't use .Net, but supporting Delphi dot namespace doesn't need to stop providing other functionality. Ideally, we should able to provide them both, the Delphi way and the FPC way. Both are the most used pascal compiler nowadays. ;)
But, I never encounter code that uses this feature; it is the perfect example of how adding syntactic sugar can help the needs of just one man.
You never encounter it doesn't mean it never been used or it's only used by one man. ;)
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