[fpc-devel] Less global variables

[Andrew Brunner]

LOL.  I was talking about another way similar to c# namespaces. 

On Oct 9, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Andrew Brunner wrote:
> 
>> 2010/10/9 Adem <listmember at letterboxes.org>:
>>> Would you consider turning those structured types into objects?
>>> 
>>> Properties with getter/setter pairs would make tracing (placing a breakpoint
>>> in the getter/sertter would help identify the caller) easier.
>> 
>> The only problem with that line of thinking is that every time your
>> are calling that variable you are adding the extra steps.  This is
>> impeding on performance of both compiling and maybe even execution.
>> 
>> Java people love getters and setters.  :-)  I think namespaces are in
>> order though.   A place to group variables (const and var, etc)
>> though.  This way we can just point to this mechanism in stead of
>> having class creep.
> 
> Sigh... Units are namespaces, since 25 years.
> 
> Michael.
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