[fpc-pascal] dot within unit file name

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Fri, 18 Jan 2008, schreef Bee:

>> Well, the statements so far went like "this sub.sub.unit stuff is just .NET 
>> crap, we won't implement any of those". ;)
>
> I don't like that kind of attitude either. .Net is not crap as a whole, it 
> does have some good features and ability. If some of them are really good, 
> then why not implement some of them in FPC too?

Agreed, but, many things in .NET interfere with how things work in Pascal. 
The .NET way of modular programming is totally different compared with the 
Pascal unit system, therefore it would function as an "alien".

What should be done is, that if the .NET namespace stuff provides 
advantages, the Pascal unit system should be logically extended to provide 
such functionality, rather than duplicate the .NET way of modular 
programming.

> Like FPC supports the ugly '+=' C syntax. :-P Maybe it's a good feature for 
> some 'lazy' programmers, but I personally don't like it.
> However, I'm not 
> against it, because FPC doesn't force me to use that syntax. It's just a 
> 'nice' feature to please some people. ;)

I think this feature is mainly there for historical reasons. Long ago 
someone wanted the feature and did provide a patch. It was made 
disabled by default because of "uglyness". This is how things 
work in open source, if you write code, a lot is possible.

But, I never encounter code that uses this feature; it is the perfect 
example of how adding syntactic sugar can help the needs of just one 
man.

Daniël