[fpc-devel] Mysql without macros

[Mattias Gärtner]

Zitat von Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>:

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> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Mattias Gärtner wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > The mysqlconn.inc uses macros. This is unnecessary and has some
> disadvantages.
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> Namely, the lazarus codetools get confused :-)

... and the users, that (mis)uses this code as example for coding.
I think it is a great FPC feature, that the most native and platform independent
language allows to code without macros (not only in theory).


> > Here is a patch that replaces the macros with simple type aliases.
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> Good idea...
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> > As far as I can see mysqlconn.inc is the same for fpc 2.3.1 and fpc 2.2.x,
> > so the patch should work for both.
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> Applied, and will merge to 2.2.3 so it gets included in 2.2.4.
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> That is, after I finished merging all my other patches...

thanks,
Mattias