On 17 Jan 2002, at 10:49, Martin G C Davies wrote:

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The reason I use external like this is because my Pascal program (yep, a rather large 250,000 lines in 150 modules) is structured very much like a C program so every module has a "template" (as in "include" file) that advertises the "public" typedefs, variables and procedures provided by the module. So, in fact, I really have 2 sources and an include:-

regabs.template

type regtype = packed -32768..32767 ;

var curpseudoreg : regtype ; external ;

procedure initregcons ; external ;

regabs.pas

module regabs ;

#include "regabs.template"

Two things: first, why not use a unit/module for "regabs.template" instead of an include file?; second (question for Frank and Peter) - isn't "#include" deprecated or am I wrong in thinking this?

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