[fpc-pascal] Namespaces Support

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Sat Oct 26 14:37:56 CEST 2013


In our previous episode, Dmitry Boyarintsev said:
> Not really namespace related, but:
> Most of the commercial/free/open source Delphi/FPC libraries are backward
> compatible to D7-D6 (including all Delphi-win32 versions)
> That comes with a cost (a bless) of not using new language syntax (as much
> as possible).
> And typically include a long-long ".inc" that instructs the compiler to be
> as much convservative as it can (fighting Delphi cross-version
> incompatibilities)
> 
> So from language environment perspective, the hard usage of "namespaces" is
> most likely will be limited to a certain set of projects.

That's basically the essence of my position yes.




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