[fpc-devel] Purpose of "uses ... in"?

[Marcos Douglas]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich
<DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:
> Thaddy schrieb:
>
>> Programmers are not very imaginative in naming. It is plainly helpfull to
>> be able to rename a file if another file with a different content.....
>
> Just in the FPC compiler case many unit names are hard coded, while the
> files to use reside e.g. in a specific machine directory, selected in the
> search path. When it becomes desireable to replace only one of these files,
> as happened to me, then a solution could be to name that replacement file
> differently from its contained unit name.
>
> Then it would be helpful to allow for exchangable file names, at least at
> project/program level. Only then one can be sure that a specific file is
> used across the entire project, regardless of all other files in the search
> path.

I am surprised as there is no conflict of names of units in the FPC / Lazarus.
There are names very short, which could be used as variable names...


MD.