Am 21.08.2012 15:13, schrieb Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior:
I already know that you can fully qualify, i believe you misread my post.
Its not that common to have name colisions if you use prefixes like i said.
I cant see how the added complexity of full name space support would
help pascal in that regard.
I wrote about why the compiler does not and should not warn because of a
collision in naming of symbols in different units.
Regards,
Sven
2012/8/21 Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com>:
Am 21.08.2012 14:10, schrieb Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior:
"With no error messages, or even with no changes to the program since 1
and a half year in the repository, the scientific calculations are now
all blown up, and program outputs only errors at runtime. The maintainer
now curses and chases me for having the nerve to leave a program
known as working in such a horrible mess in the repository."
Never tested, but doesnt the compiler warn of the colision ? if not, it
should.
Usually i prefix my symbols with some meaningfull prefixes to avoid
collision. I never have two symbols with the same name and i hardly
used unit prefixes in the past.
But a collision warning from the compiler would be helpfull.
Units provide a namespace, so UnitA.Foo is not the same as UnitB.Foo. Thus
it is perfectly allowed and valid and sometimes also common to have a
collision here. [also the compiler stops looking for further symbols if it
has found the first one => one of the reasons for the high compilation
speed]
Regards,
Sven
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