[fpc-devel] The (near) future of strings

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Mattias Gaertner said:
> >[...]
> > I usually use Delphi XE2+ with namespace prefix, and many with me. IMHO
> > requiring to change Delphi sources to dotted units is a nono.
> 
> What do you mean with Delphi sources? The Classes unit or the
> user's unit?

User code that is dual use Delphi XE2+ and FPC. So Delphi XE2+ code without all units
dotted, except the designer generated ones (too lazy to rename that all the time)
 
> Do you mean the dotted unitname will not be needed when the compiler
> is extended to support namespace prefixes (project and command line
> switch)?

I assume not since that would be Delphi incompatible. Under delphi this is
possible.