On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Daniël Mantione wrote:
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> Op Fri, 18 Jan 2008, schreef Michael Van Canneyt:
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> > To the user, it may appear as a bunch of dots. To the compiler, it doesn't
> > know how to map the a.b.c.d:
>
> Well, with normal Pascal rules, you cannot declare a variable with the same
> name as a unit you use, because a unit is also an identifier. Most logical
> would be to reject the declaration of variable A in this case due to a
> duplicate identifier.
No, because the unit identifier is a.b.c, not a.
It has to be, otherwise units windows.messages and windows.records would
both have identifier windows, leading to an error.
Michael.
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