[Lazarus] FPReport file names

[Sven Barth]

Am 13.09.2017 10:45 schrieb "Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus" <
lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org>:
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> On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
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>> On 2017-09-12 19:01, Alexey via Lazarus wrote:
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>>> It is new. Please rename (it's easy for new component) all files:
>>> usually its good with one prefix. E.g. fprep_*.*.
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>> hahaha... I had the units like that, using underscores. eg:
fpreport_export_aggpas.pas, fpreport_export_fpimage.pas etc.  Michael
didn't like it, so it got renamed before it went into FPC Trunk. :)
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>> The LCL related units could be prefixed though, as Michael mentioned.
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> They should be, since some of the names used in the designer are indeed
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>> Then again, maybe it's time FPC starts making use of namespaces and
dotted unit names? Just a thought. In Delphi it is actually pretty useful
and also stops unit name conflicts. FPC does need a bit more work though to
fully support namespaces - at least the way Delphi uses it.
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> As long as there are no command-line switch and directive for setting
namespaces, they are completely useless. And even with them, the benefit is
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> The benefit of writing fpreport.exporthtml versus fpreportexporthtml is
zero.
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The "." allows for a nicer disambiguation between what's the prefix and
what's the remainder. Granted, that can be done with "_" as well, but in my
personal opinion a "." simply looks nicer. :)

Regards,
Sven
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