[Lazarus] Forward declaration not solved

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Antonio Fortuny wrote:

>
> Le 09/08/2013 13:39, Michael Van Canneyt a écrit :
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
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>>> 
>>>> Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> hat am 9. August 2013 um 
>>>> 12:19
>>>> geschrieben:
>>>> [...]
>>>>> OK, I think I can live with this. But I think it would be preferable to 
>>>>> use
>>>>> a
>>>>> distinct type name.
>>>> 
>>>> I have been proponent of this idea since many years :-)
>>> 
>>> What type do you want to rename?
>> 
>> THandle. I suspect you have it in lcltypes or so.
>> 
>> IMHO there should be TFileHandle, TWindowHandle etc. Probably on windows 
>> they will all end up referencing windows.THandle, but on other platforms 
>> they may be wildly different.
> For a developer as me, this is probably the best solution indeed. I do 
> manipulate lots of handles in my applications and do not really want to take 
> care of which basic type they are. I'd be more than happy to re-engineer my 
> applications diversifying handle types which means to get rid of all this 
> ambiguity when addressing OS objects. My problem then would be to use the 
> right handle type where needed

That is exactly why I am a proponent of this mechanism.

Michael.