On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Ryan Joseph wrote:
On Apr 14, 2016, at 2:56 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys <mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote: If you can give an actual example we can help. I've used TP then Delphi and now Free Pascal for more than 20+ years. I can probably count on one hand how many circular reference issues I had. So I dont' think it is such a big problem as you make out. Often moving uses clause references from the Interface section to the Implementation section solve the problem. Sometimes using a base class in the interface works. Sometimes using Interfaces (the language feature) is a much better approach. So again, if you can give an actual example of the various units, and how they relate (use each other), then we might be able to help you further. Regards, GraemeI’ve just browsed over some code and found moving uses to the implementation did in fact help. That’s really helpful thank you both. However I’m still seeing some common patterns which just don’t seem Pascal friendly. I started using these more often after using Objective-C on Mac frequently and I really like it but it requires me to hack around the compiler in Pascal. In that example below the “main” class has children it talks to using an interface and returning a reference to itself for introspection. They are interdependent but Pascal doesn’t offer a way to expose a global namespace for both the units as far as I know. In other languages I would make another “globals” unit and keep forward references to TClassA, TClassB and IClassA. ============================== ClassB.pas: uses ClassA; // <----- circular reference but I need to know about ClassA type TClassB = class (IClassA) // when we implement this method we may need to know some things // about the parent (TClassA) so it must be included procedure ClassDidThis (parent: TClassA; action: integer); end; ClassA.pas: uses ClassB; type TClassA = class child: TClassB; end;
You should not need TClassB here. You defeat the point of using an interface. Child : IClassA; should be sufficient. Michael.
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