[fpc-pascal] Re: How to avoid namespace name clashes after USES ?

[Sven Barth]

Am 21.08.2012 14:10, schrieb Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior:
> "With no error messages, or even with no changes to the program since 1
> and a half year in the repository, the scientific calculations are now
> all blown up, and program outputs only errors at runtime. The maintainer
> now curses and chases me for having the nerve to leave a program
> known as working in such a horrible mess in the repository."
>
> Never tested, but doesnt the compiler warn of the colision ? if not, it should.
>
> Usually i prefix my symbols with some meaningfull prefixes to avoid
> collision. I never have two symbols with the same name and i hardly
> used unit prefixes in the past.
>
> But a collision warning from the compiler would be helpfull.

Units provide a namespace, so UnitA.Foo is not the same as UnitB.Foo. 
Thus it is perfectly allowed and valid and sometimes also common to have 
a collision here. [also the compiler stops looking for further symbols 
if it has found the first one => one of the reasons for the high 
compilation speed]

Regards,
Sven