[Lazarus] Nested Classes used as Namespace Issue

[Razvan Adrian Bogdan]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Andrew Brunner
<andrew.t.brunner at gmail.com>wrote:

> type
>  ns=class
>  Type
>     Vendor=class
>     Const
>       id    = "ITMID';
>       Size = 'ITMSIZE';
>     Type
>        PVendor=^TVendor;
>        TVendor=record
>          ID : Int64;
>          Size : Integer;
>        end;
>        class procedure Foo();
>     end;
>     Supplier=class
>         // example
>        class procedure Foo();
>     end;
>  end;
> end;
>
> Neither ns.Supplier.Foo() nor ns.Vendor.Foo() will not jump to the
> actual code in Lazarus IDE.  It kind of muddles nested classes (as
> namespaces) that FPC supports.  Is this on someones list of todos?
>
> Interesting stuff, it's like nested records, but wouldn't this look nicer
if the "type" keyword was optional, maybe only required where there is not
keyword like class or record ? This looks like a nice feature but it
shouldn't make code less readable by requiring keywords that only make the
source more ugly.
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