[fpc-pascal] Feature announcement: default namespaces

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Mon May 7 10:35:22 CEST 2018


On Sat, 5 May 2018 19:23:04 +0200
Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

>[...]
> I'm pleased to announce the implementation of a new feature: default 
> namespaces.

Nice!
Dotted unit names without that felt so stupid.

 
>[...] Nevertheless the prefix of such a unit (in my example "MyUnits") is called a namespace.

Fun fact: Delphi help sometimes calls it "unit scope names". ;)

 
>[...]
> The compiler is told about a default namespace using the new -FN<x> 
> parameter,

Lazarus now checks for the -FN flag in the custom compiler options.

Can you add a message similar to "Using unit path:"?
Then Lazarus can find out what default namespaces are defined by the
fpc.cfg.


Mattias



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