[fpc-devel] Suggestion for change: Overly strict check

[Chris Cheney]

C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre.

Two Very Bad Things:

* The restriction increases the context sensitivity of the language.

* The restriction increases the number of incompatibilities with Delphi 
and therefore increases the difficulty of porting existing programs.

The restriction could be subject to a configurable option (perhaps it is 
already) but, without a configurable option, the restriction should be 
omitted. If the language is changed to suit the whims of the developers, 
it might end up as a fine language, but one with no customers.

Reductio ad absurdum: no identifier may have more than one declaration in 
a single program because the programmer may get confused as to which 
thing is being referenced.

Chris Cheney

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