[fpc-pascal] Feature announcement: default namespaces

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2018-05-06 14:45, Vojtěch Čihák wrote:
> LCLIntf, LCLProc, LCLType isn't enough? I will use dotted units only if
> there will be absolutely no other way around.
> 
> I believe it can be useful but I don't think it's "must have" (when I
> don't consider Delphi compat.). 
> 

No, it's not a "must have" or "must use", but it does have it's uses. As
was already pointed out, Delphi uses it for backwards compatibility and
allows two completely different framework to use the same unit names.
eg: VCL.Forms and FMX.Forms.

It could be used in FPC or your own library too - instead of using
IFDEFs and Include files for platform specific code, where they share
the same interface. So now you can use namespaces instead and specify
the namespace platform when you compile - similar to what you would have
done with Compile Defines.


Regards,
  Graeme

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