Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: >> I'm not complaining, just saying that the source is sometimes hard to >> figure out for some people, like me (I must say I did not went in it >> that much). > > The problem is not include files, the problem is that the code needs > better comments and better documentation. > >>> Includefiles are not evil. Sure Delphi doesn't use them much, but that >>> doesn't mean there is something wrong with them when somewhat properly used. >> Indeed, and they are probably most required because of all the GUI and >> OS lazarus supports. I was just wondering if simplifying it is >> possible; it might not in fact. > > No, include files have nothing to do with multiple GUI / OS support.
They have. As well as they have in the fpc rtl/fcl. Just consider the FPC system unit, stuffing everything into one file would lead to a huge, probably >100k lines file with a lot of ifdefs which make things completely unmaintainable and unreadable and modifications very error prone. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
