[fpc-devel] Fix CamelCase in unit and method names

[Tomas Hajny]

On Thu, March 22, 2018 12:42, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2018, Ondrej Pokorny wrote:


Hi,

>> will a patch be applied that fixes CamelCase in unit and method names
>> and other identifiers?
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> dateutils -> DateUtils
>> sysutils -> SysUtils
>> typinfo -> TypInfo
>> contnrs -> Contnrs
>> strutils -> StrUtils
 .
 .
>> (For unit names: of course only the unit definition name will be
>> changed, not the file name).
>
> At first sight I don't see any disadvantages from this, so yes, I would
> apply such a patch.

IMHO preferably not the unit names (as in 'unit XxX') - with case
sensitive file names on Unix, this change might increase time for
searching the respective file (somewhat). Obviously, all further
references of the unit (as in 'SysUtils.Execute') should be fine.

Tomas