> > i would have beat my head against a wall for days on a problem like that.
It was absolutely unexpected by me. You saw: unit order matter very much and both units may be without sources (people are not supposed to install sources every time). Signalling error "wrong type", when I have correct function, is like nonsense. > Using the wrong tool for the wrong job, I would say. A compiler is to > compiler, an > IDE to write code. If so, compiler would submit messages in human unreadable format to IDE or make. > > i would suggest that this is an opportunity to think about error > > reporting in the compiler. Well, that was what I wanted to say. > > i would suggest, as a compiler enhancement, maybe ... > > a) the compiler could report ambigous symbols as a warning > > b) the error could report fully qualifed symbols on errors To now it reports "...found declaration...", but does not state where. > Yes, more verbose error messages are always nice (until they get too verbose). I talk about "-va" mode: I get tons of messages about paths/files compiler looks at for units, but no good hint. At first I was to submit bug report like "error in documentation: sysutils.deletefile has other declaration". (By the way, sysutils itself uses windows unit with FPC for win32.) _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
