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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2018, Tomas Hajny wrote:

> 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.

But only if it is in a uses clause, not the actual unit xx; clause ?

Michael.