[fpc-devel] RTTI unit

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Hans-Peter Diettrich said:
> >> For this I'd like to know a few things:
> >> - First off: would this kind of thing even be considered for inclusion?
> > 
> > Yes. Any unit to increase Delphi compatibility is worth of inclusion.
> 
> IMO compatibility with the Delphi Unicode version were a different 
> project, requiring some manpower. There exist some more questionable 
> features, resulting from the (attempted and dropped) .NET version, like 
> dotted unit names.
> 
> IMO we should wait for Delphi "X", and then update FPC/Lazarus according 
> to that platform independent version.

Since this feature is not fully connected to unicode I don't see the need
for that restriction.  Even if we only allow it in a possible future D2009+
mode, changing mode assignments is probably much less work than implementing
it.