[Lazarus] Forward declaration not solved

[Antonio Fortuny]

Le 09/08/2013 15:02, Michael Van Canneyt a écrit :
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> On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Antonio Fortuny wrote:
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>> 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.
Just tell me how to push forward with you 8-)

Antonio.
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> Michael.
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