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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Daniël Mantione wrote:

> 
> 
> 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.

No, because the unit identifier is a.b.c, not a. 

It has to be, otherwise units windows.messages and windows.records would
both have identifier windows, leading to an error.

Michael.