On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Timothy Madden <terminato...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
"Never work", hum... ,maybe a compiler directive to ON/OFF this feature would be better. > Sorry to hear no one will implement it, you would not say it is > difficult to do at a first glance... I think the FPC core did not like or does not care. If has no one to implement it is a problem too. =( Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
