Re: I really hate .NET especially inside Delphi

"Nick Hodges (Borland/DTG)" <nickhodges@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4522ae71$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Robert Giesecke wrote:
Well, units are absolutely poor compared to namespaces.
That's totally subjective -- what's wrong with them?

I think he refers to the ability (like C#) for a unit to contribute to an arbitrary namespace, decoupling unit name from
namespace, something like:
unit Unit1;
namespace System.Windows.Forms.Foo1;
....
namespace System.Windows.Forms.Foo2;

so all contents in Unit1 is visible to consumers of System.Windows.Forms.Foo namespace, including other units.
This breaks Pascal #1 rule of top-down unit visibility via "uses" (ie: single-pass parser).

Why not? No one complained about it for the 20 years Pascal...
Everybody likes anarchy, at least until facing it <g>

regards
david




In addition -- these are pretty small complaints, really. "Delphi for
.NET sucks" seems a bit of hyperbole relative to them, don't you think?

--
Nick Hodges
Delphi/C# Product Manager - Borland DTG
http://blogs.borland.com/nickhodges


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