[fpc-devel] Generics.Collections as package for Lazarus or package for FPC RTL

Marcos Douglas md at delfire.net
Wed Jan 27 13:56:10 CET 2016


On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 7:22 AM, Michael Van Canneyt
<michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
> I don't think namespaces are the holy grail.
>
> Assume we introduce namespaces, do things 'Properly' and introduce
> Core.FileUtils
> Core.StringUtils
> (the names are just examples, to make a point)
>
> Now let's take example existing routines such as
> ExtractFilePath
> ExtractFileName
> Where do we put them ?

Using your examples names -- I say that because I disagree they are good names:

Core.File.Utils
  - ExtractFilePath
  - ExtractFileName

These functions 'belong' to the file context, not strings.

Best regards,
Marcos Douglas



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