On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl> wrote: > In our previous episode, Marcos Douglas said: >> > Namespaces are only for pseudo hierarchical disambiguation of unit names in >> > Pascal. >> >> Very true. I agree with everything. >> BUT, IMHO, the only problem is if you have two 3rd frameworks that use >> the same unit name. In that case I can not add 2 units with the same >> name in my project. So, only in that case, we could use 'namespaces' >> to 'rename' these units only for use in our projects without change >> the original source. > > In theory yes, in practice no, since that would be incompatible with > anything below XE2+ (and most commercial component builders still support > D7).
Yes and how I still use D7 at work I still have this problem. This problem happen not only for unit names but component names too. I can not register two components with the same name. So, because that, programmers around the world use prefix in class names. If the components were registered using 'unit+class_name' and when we drop a component on the Form the IDE write the unit name as a prefix, this problem not will happen. My more fresh example is: I have, for years, many units that have the prefix 'M'. So I have MClasses, MCore, MTasks, MSystem, etc. Now MSEgui (by Martin Schreiber) introduced a mclasses unit -- your own implementation of classes unit -- and I can not use both units in the same project. :( > As with any feature, there are people that already design it in after the > first beta, but it will be rare, very rare, in the wild. Sorry, I didn't understand what you mean. :( Regards, Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
