[Lazarus] Support for dotted unit name

Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.lists at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 08:50:41 CET 2011


On 4 November 2011 09:17, Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
> This is the explanation for using unitname.identifier, which worked
> since many years.

I was just about to say the same thing.


> Dotted unit name means dots in the unit name itself. For example
> an.example.pas. I don't know a good example.

I don't see any use for it either. It seems to be one of those things
Borland introduced with or after Delphi 8 (aka Delphi for .NET).
Basically trying to copy features from .NET for no good reason. And we
all know how great an idea that was.


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  - Graeme -


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