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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Nov 17, 2024 at 7:57:07 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <<a href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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- how about allowing the same AS in unit declarations so we can do<br>something like [unit MyUnitWithABigName AS MyUnit] and then use<br>[MyUnit.TSomeClass] — this can already be done with MACROS, so it<br>would be simple to implement in the language, right?<br><br>That alone shows that you have no clue how the compiler works...<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Why is that such a crazy idea? There are already type aliases and module names work like types so it makes sense they could be aliased too. Why not?</div><div dir="ltr">
<br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Regards,</div> Ryan Joseph</div></div><br>
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