On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:26:11 -0300 Marcos Douglas <m...@delfire.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich > <drdiettri...@aol.com> wrote: > > Thaddy schrieb: > > > >> Programmers are not very imaginative in naming. It is plainly helpfull to > >> be able to rename a file if another file with a different content..... > > > > Just in the FPC compiler case many unit names are hard coded, while the > > files to use reside e.g. in a specific machine directory, selected in the > > search path. When it becomes desireable to replace only one of these files, > > as happened to me, then a solution could be to name that replacement file > > differently from its contained unit name. > > > > Then it would be helpful to allow for exchangable file names, at least at > > project/program level. Only then one can be sure that a specific file is > > used across the entire project, regardless of all other files in the search > > path. > > I am surprised as there is no conflict of names of units in the FPC / Lazarus. Of course there are. For example unit dialogs. This is solved by the search path. There are even conflicting names in the system unit. For example the system unit has a THandle that is 32bit under linux 64bit, but Lazarus needs a THandle that is 64bit under 64bit. Gladfully the system unit is searched last. > There are names very short, which could be used as variable names... Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
