[fpc-pascal] What's a unit?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Sven Barth wrote:

>> Thanks Sven, looks interesting and I'll play with it presently. Can an
>> extended record's fields/methods be set up at compilation time, or do
>> they need to be done by code?
>>
> 
> The example I've given was for the case that you load the functions 
> dynamically and use the procvars contained in the record. You could do 
> it this way as well:

Yes, that's pretty much what I'm already doing (courtesy of somebody's 
Delphi NAG bindings). But what about the static case, i.e. can an 
extended record be exposed as a constant in an ordinary unit (no DLLs 
etc. involved) with the methods preinitialised?

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