[fpc-devel] Generics.Collections as package for Lazarus or package for FPC RTL

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Wed Jan 27 10:34:58 CET 2016



On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Tomas Hajny wrote:

> On Wed, January 27, 2016 09:46, Anthony Walter wrote:
>
>
> Anthony,
>
>> Do you care to address the issues I raised with the inconsistency of
>> string related functions I raised? Specifically the part about string
>> functions in SysUtils, StrUtils, LCLProcs, LazUTF8, among other units where
>> string related routines are scattered. Also strings aren't the only types
>> where we have these scattered around problems.
>
> I believe that I covered this one in my response at least partly - the
> scattering is due to creation of routines by different people from
> different teams. It is related to history and compatibility. I dont' see
> how namespaces might solve this.

It seems we are of the same mind here :-)

Michael.



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