[fpc-pascal] Please someone explain this to me

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, Anthony Walter wrote:

>> This won't be changed. Period.
>
> Sven, not to be argumentative,

Funny.
You _are_ argumentative, considering the answers you got and number of posts :-)

(no offense intended)

> but you do get that for a long time
> programmers have learned how to write code and use libraries by examining
> them?

That may be true for ordinary libraries.

But the RTL is equivalent to Libc.

I suggest you hold a poll for the number of people that learned C (or C++)
by studying libc or libstd (or whatever it is called in C++).

I expect you will be disappointed.

Secondly, I don't think the sysutils or system units are a particularly good
example. They are a historical image of the attempts (and possible mistakes) of
Borland, Inprise, CodeGear, Embarcadero and now Idera, dating back to Turbo Pascal.

Hardly good study material for learning.

> My goal is simply to make it easier for the people who would want to
> pick up and start using Lazarus.

A most noble goal, which I wholeheartedly support !

Therefor I humbly suggest you continue your much-appreciated efforts in writing 
much more documentation examples and tutorials, improve the documentation engine, 
help out in getting fppkg and its upcoming web front end deployed.

I think that will help a lot more than us reorganizing the RTL unit files.

Michael.