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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:48:27 +0200 (CEST)
From: (Marco van de Voort)
Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Purpose of "uses ... in"?
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In our previous episode, Schindler Karl-Michael said:
>> thread saying that they use this functionality (both in FPC and in
>> Delphi). Therefore I don't think it is a good idea to remove or change
>> it.
>>
>> If different functionality is desired, I think it's better to add a
>> different construct rather than using the same construct but with a
>> different meaning.
>
> When checking, I found that it is used for all files in UltraStar Deluxe.
With or without paths? IOW does it only change casing? Then it might not be
that bad. (though it doesn't deserve a beauty price either).
Probably that is because of Kylix, that doesn't have FPC's "in case of
doubt, just lowercase all filenames" escape, resulting in the need to
micromanage it manually using IN.
I have no solid idea about why it is used in the first place. Fortunately, only relative paths are given. I have to check, whether it changes casing. If so, it should be easy to fix, in particular since Delphi is used for Windows only, whereas Linux and Mac OS X are fpc. I'll investigate, whether we can actually get rid of it. Thanks for pointing out the issue.
MiSchi