[fpc-pascal] Sample unit code

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> Michael Van Canneyt writes:
> 
> > What is not clear ?
> 
> For starters I don't really follow the diagrams in the ref document. It
> probably is some type of formal definition, but I am neither familiar with it,
> nor seem to get it. Even when I look at a simpler case like procedure
> declaration I can't follow those blocks.
> 
> I see some simpler declarations on top of the ref document so I will look at
> those and try to get more familiar with that style of documentation. 
> The sample code in the ref document doesn't document the simplest case, but
> goes over what I think is a more complex example of a unit that uses another
> unit.  
> It also doesn't have any actual code to do anything, so it is kind of an
> abstract example . I was looking on the other docs to see if there were any
> examples, but did not find any. 

I'll add more examples.

> Would be great to have something simmilar to what we have for the procedure
> declaration on page 100. Something complete, yet trivial enough that a total
> newbie can follow. 
> > Look in the 'Contributed units' section of the website (on the right, in
> > section 'Coding'). There are lots of units there.
> 
> I started to look at those and the first one I tried was not even accessible.
> Then tried sourceforge. The second I tried didn't even have a readme document.
> :-(
> 
> I guess I could try one unit at a time until I find a simple one, but I figure
> if anyone knows of a simple unit that may be easy to read, that may be a
> better starting point.

All Free Pascal sources are made up of units. That should yield something ? :-)

Michael.