[fpc-devel] Local variable names and colision with attributes/properties names

[Marcos Douglas]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graeme at geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:
> On 2012-09-27 17:52, Marcos Douglas wrote:
>>
>> I agree that is much simpler... but why nobody, in another language,
>> do the same? Does not worth it? I do not know.
>
> Well, other languages have there own quirks like case sensitive
> identifiers. Thank God, Object Pascal doesn't have that.
>
> Just imagine.
>
>   var
>     MyName: string;
>     MYNAME: string;
>     MYName: string;
>     myName: string;
>     myname: string;
>   begin
>     ...
>   end;
>
>  :-D

Ok.
But, even in Pascal, if you have the same variable written in many
styles you can have confusion too.

Marcos Douglas