[fpc-pascal] How to avoid namespace name clashes after USES ?

[Marcos Douglas]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Marcos Douglas <md at delfire.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior
> <jagfj80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2012/8/21 Marcos Douglas <md at delfire.net>:
>>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
>>>> In our previous episode, Marcos Douglas said:
>>>>
>>>>> I proposed this sintaxe:
>>>>> uses my_long_unit_name as my;
>>>>> begin
>>>>>   my.proc();
>>>>> end
>>>>
>>>> This doesn't protect any better, since
>>>> the new unit might also define "my".
>>>
>>> True, but using this sintaxe I can use an alias to the third-party
>>> units so, I can use my own names to reference identifiers that I can
>>> not change.
>>> The collision still can exists? Yes, but in that case the programmer
>>> would be wrong, not third-party unit names or because the compiler not
>>> helped.
>>>
>>> The third-party could use a better and bigger name like "XyzNetSocket"
>>> but I could use just "net" (uses XyzNetSocket as net), for example.
>>>
>>> IMHO this is more sophisticated than pure namespace.
>>
>> Instead of implementing the half-assed C++ namespace model, just add
>> to the compiler a warning when it detects that there is a collision in
>> the current scope (two functions with the same parameters from
>> different units that can be called from the scope being inspected). I
>> believe function overload alread provides the necessary hooks, but i
>> cant do it because i have zero experience with FPC sources...
>
> Well, a good idea but this is another thing...
> This is do not resolves the problem if I have a third-party unit with
> the same name that other.

...continue:
If I can use an alias to ref an unit, the names could be bigger
because I can ref them only using the alias.

Extend the concept:
if nevertheless we have same names in two libs (eg: foounit), we could use:
uses
  foounit as f1 in '/path_1/foounit.pas',
  foounit as f2 in '/path_2/foounit.pas';

IMHO, would be PERFECT.

Marcos Douglas