On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
> On Friday 18 January 2008 15:19, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > > I saw this week a CodeGear Guy in a cg ng talking about that. > > > In Win32 its is Just dots in the name, nothing else. > > > > If he said that, he is totally braindead and doesn't have a clue > > about what he is talking. > > Well, the discussion and explanation that have been provided so far, > back up that braindead guy's statement. Of course not: tell me, what does a.b.c.d mean if you have a record a with field b, and you have a uses a.b.c in your uses clause ? so ---------------------------- unit a.b.c; interface Var D : Integer; implementation end. ---------------------------- and then: ---------------------------- unit test; interface uses a.b.c; Type T = record b : integer; end; Implementation var A : T; begin A.b.c.d:=3;// ??? end. ---------------------------- To the user, it may appear as a bunch of dots. To the compiler, it doesn't know how to map the a.b.c.d: 1. Scoping rules dictate that the first match is the variable a. So, it finds a as a variable. 2. then it finds b in the fields of T. OK, it's on the right track! 3. But then it looks for C, but doesn't find it -> error, what now ? nevertheless (a.b.c).d would be a correct reference to integer d in unit a.b.c (the brackets serve just to make a point, they are not real notation). So, what to do ? Throw an error, or set d in unit a.b.c. ? And what about searching for (a).b.c.d and (a.b).c.d ? What combinations of dots and brackets must be tried ? (namespaces could also be a and a.b) Maybe someone with delphi for .net available can run the above test ? Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
