On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Fabrício Srdic <fabricio.sr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2013/10/27 Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl> >> >> 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). >> >> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org >> http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > > > Namespace address this problem, but as the Marco said, not to anything below > XE2.
As Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote -- as Marco said before: Adding "features" just because "enterpise-class dev platforms" have them is more marketing move, than actual technical need. Pascal do not need 'namespaces' like Java or .NET have. Units are namespaces. Point. But I think, IMHO, that missing something to the design be perfect: "rename unit virtually" We already had many discussions about it on this list, but nothing is good enough and/or nobody have time to implement it; or nobody agrees. I think it was Graeme Geldenhuys wrote this page: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Namespaces Regards, Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
