On 20 Aug 2012, at 18:15, Timothy Madden wrote: > This story is inspired from a real case when *lots* of user code > suddenly stopped compiling after JDK 1.2 was released, with a new List > class, which users had to import from a different package until JDK 1.1. > In this case is wasn't even a third-party library that triggered > conflicts in existing code, it was the system run-time library. Since > that story most Java programmers prefer to import and enumerate each and > every class they use explicitly, instead of importing the package that > provides the classes
Importing a single class in Java still requires you to specify the full package name, so how would that help preventing compilation failures in case a class is moved from one package to another? > (I believe there is no equivalent feature in Pascal > that imports only one symbol from a unit). Indeed. > Is there any form of proposal or some alternative to the USES clause, > that will keep all the imported symbol names qualified by some namespace > name or by some prefix I choose ? Not that I know of. Jonas_______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
