RES: [fpc-pascal] dot within unit file name

Daniël Mantione daniel.mantione at freepascal.org
Fri Jan 18 16:04:07 CET 2008



Op Fri, 18 Jan 2008, schreef Michael Van Canneyt:

> To the user, it may appear as a bunch of dots. To the compiler, it doesn't
> know how to map the a.b.c.d:

Well, with normal Pascal rules, you cannot declare a variable with the 
same name as a unit you use, because a unit is also an identifier. Most 
logical would be to reject the declaration of variable A in this case due 
to a duplicate identifier.

Daniël


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