[fpc-pascal] dot within unit file name

[Matt Emson]

Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Matt Emson wrote:
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> What is the difference ? 
> The second one saves on typing, which is a plus in my book ?
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Right.. confusion over verbosity. Given two units called 
"Constants.pas", which one is the correct unit? Given a unit called 
"Utils.pas" and one called "ExtraDefs.pas", both of which contain 
different implementations of the type TSocket, which is the correct unit 
to use?

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>> File names should have nothing to do with Namespaces too.
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>> I'd also love:
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>> unit Blah;
>> Namespace MyAPI.Blah;
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> And how will you know which namespace is in what unit (or file) ?
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Turning it on its head - file names should have nothing to do with unit 
names. The unit lives in a namespace, The namespace directive gives the 
path to the unit. so it would be:

unit Blah;
namespace MyAPI

and

uses MyAPI.Blah;



> You then need a second structure mapping namespaces on filenames, making it
> slower, bulkier and error prone. The cure is worse than the disease, IMHO

Nope.. see above.

Do you have a problem with partial classes? Also called "Categories" in 
Objective C.