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

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Sven Barth said:
> The fp prefixes for the Posix functions are there to avoid confusion with
> the native Pascal functionality (e.g. mkdir) and for consistency all these
> functions have the prefix.

(And most importantly "read", "write" and "close". Worse, read and write
are not even functions but intrinsics, so they are available everywhere. And
they are not defined as POSIX functions, but "loosely modelled after POSIX"
:-))