[fpc-devel] regarding RTTI unit mail

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Dani?l Mantione said:
> > and C++ you can get hell when you change the order of elements, 
> > with interleaved #defines and #ifs (what's possible in Pascal as 
> > well).
> 
> If the order of elements is enforced, it is not a creative decision, thus 
> both programmers can make the same decision without violating each others 
> copyright.

This sidestep thread over the EU directive misses the main point. Legal or
not, the question is do we really copy interfaces straight from Borland
source?  Afaik not.  At least I never did, I always looked up header
definitions from places as Delphi.about.com