Francisco Reyes wrote:
I was refering to not seeing a note that one can not have a unit
name be the same as a function name. I was never refering to case
sensitivity. Sorry for not been more clear.
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Ahh, OK. Yes, I've run into that problem myself. The one I
remember was where I was using the MacOSAll unit which defined a
random function which then hid the FPC version of random with the same
name declared in the system unit. The only reason I figured it out
was that I tried passing a parameter which didn't work and someone
pointed out to me what happened. I was told that you could use both
versions and the FPC version could be accessed by calling
system.random. That is, you can use the unit name as a dot notation
prefix (like a record or method) to access the specific one you want.
In addition, I am thinking it would be a nice feature for an IDE to
color code the FPC RTL routines to give one a clue if you are trying
to redefine a system function. There are reasons for allowing
multiple defined names but it can be a bit confusing.
By the way, I've tested the system.random function and three of the
random functions supplied by Apple via MacOSAll, and I have found the
FPC implementation to be the fastest most "accurate" and most flexible
(due to the FPC function overloading.) - ROW
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