On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Marcos Douglas wrote:
Yes, it's always possible. In practice, I haven't seen this happen a single
time in the 10+ years that the compiler has had this feature. That doesn't
mean that it's impossible, but it's another factor in the "good to have"
versus "causes more harm than good" equation.
Well, happened on the own compiler. ;-)
IMHO, these collisions happen a lot and because of this many
programmers use prefixes in local variables, see:
lNet, fpGUI, tiOPF2, Indy, and even Delphi (DateUtils unit eg.).
Exactly.
The compiler helps you by forcing you to use a prefix in objfpc mode in case
you forgot.
Michael.
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