Re: What to do to get new users

Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal <[email protected]>
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 On Nov 17, 2024 at 7:57:07 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <
[email protected]> wrote:

> - how about allowing the same AS in unit declarations so we can do
> something like [unit MyUnitWithABigName AS MyUnit] and then use
> [MyUnit.TSomeClass] — this can already be done with MACROS, so it
> would be simple to implement in the language, right?
>
> That alone shows that you have no clue how the compiler works...
>

Why is that such a crazy idea? There are already type aliases and module
names work like types so it makes sense they could be aliased too. Why not?

Regards,
    Ryan Joseph

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