On 08/21/2012 06:06 PM, Marcos Douglas wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Timothy Madden <terminato...@gmail.com> > wrote: [...] >> 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 ? >> >> Something like: >> import System into sys, Math, Trigonometric into trig; >> and then I would need to use trig.actg() as the only possible way to >> refer to actg() function in the Trigonometric unit, and to use >> Math.log() for logarithm ? >> >> Yes, I know I can qualify names even now if I so choose, but I was >> thinking for a way to ensure that qualified names are the only >> possibility, and a way that will allow me some shorter qualification, >> because with the current qualified names, the qualified name can be >> really long. >> >> Thank you, >> Timothy Madden > > I feel your pain. > A long time ago this topic was talked here, on the list, and many > ideas were proposed... but none was accepted or because no one will > implement it. > I proposed this sintaxe: > uses my_long_unit_name as my; > begin > my.proc(); > end
This is what I am also looking for, I think it is the only real solution. Also, with this syntax, qualifing the symbol with "my." is the only way to access the proc() symbol there, meaning that begin proc(); end will never work. Sorry to hear no one will implement it, you would not say it is difficult to do at a first glance... Thank you, Timothy Madden _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
