[fpc-pascal] Ideas for namespace implementation

[Joël Thieffry]

 Le 05/08/2010 21:56, Marcos Douglas a écrit :
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Marcos Douglas <md at delfire.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Martin <fpc at mfriebe.de> wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>> IMO, if there is no further concept of child units (maybe similar to Ada)
>>>> there is no point in adding namespaces to FPC, it's not worth the trouble.
>>>> After all, it's still a name and if somebody else already uses it, you still
>>>> need another to disambiguate.
>>>>
>>> Yes, Namespaces (those on top of units) will inherit the same conflict
>>> problem that units have. That is as long as the inherit the same source...
>>>
>>> That means, if the namespace for a unit is given to that unit by the writer
>>> of that unit, then 2 writers of 2 units will eventually give the same
>>> namespace to equally named units....
>>>
>>> *if*, but what is if not. What is if the namespace is not set by the writer
>>> of the unit, but instead of that by the user of the unit.
>>>
>>> The user will always know if 2 units do conflict => so he can then set a
>>> namespaces => and because the user (as in the writer of the final program)
>>> knows already all the names, and decides all the namespaces himself => there
>>> will be no conflict.
>> As I said:
>> [[
>>> But if you can CHOOSE the name of alias for the units of others
>>> programmers, in MY project, then I can see a possible solution, don't
>>> you?
>> ]]
>>
>>> that can be done by giving the namespace to an include path -Fu / -FU (if
>>> necessary recursive)
>>> => only draw back, you have to do it equally for every PC /installation that
>>> you use....
>>>   (unless the  UUID thing....)
>>>
>>> Then again, it is only worth the bother, if someone actually deems it worth
>>> his/her time to implement it....
> I was thinking... if we could use a nickname, for an unit, just to
> reference it on the code?
> The unit (same) name problem still happen, I know... then I have to
> rename my units with long names (this is worse) but I could codify
> with bit names in my code.
>
> eg:
> the unit mycompany_strutils.pas will be referenced on the code:
>
> uses
>    mycompany_strutils as stru;
>
> begin
>   stru.Foo('str foo');
> end;
>
> Got it?
> Is this more easy to implement?
>
>
> Regards,
> Marcos Douglas
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This looks like the import as statement in Python :
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0221/

Best Regards.