[fpc-pascal] Namespaces Support

[Dmitry Boyarintsev]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Marcos Douglas <md at delfire.net> wrote:

> Yes and how I still use D7 at work I still have this problem.
> This problem happen not only for unit names but component names too. I
> can not register two components with the same name.
> So, because that, programmers around the world use prefix in class
> names. If the components were registered using 'unit+class_name' and
> when we drop a component on the Form the IDE write the unit name as a
> prefix, this problem not will happen.
>
Ah, that's an interesting example.I hardly use the component registry
myself.

>
> My more fresh example is:
> I have, for years, many units that have the prefix 'M'. So I have
> MClasses, MCore, MTasks, MSystem, etc.
> Now MSEgui (by Martin Schreiber) introduced a mclasses unit -- your
> own implementation of classes unit -- and I can not use both units in
> the same project. :(

So was the issue fixed?
I'd suggest to renamed your MClassess to MDgClasses or not to use MSEgui at
all. The best approach here is to rename only 1 collision at a time - at
least this is what I would do. The fix is pretty easy - renaming the file
itself and all uses section of units that are using it. (prevents updating
to D2010 for namespaces)

I doubt that Martin would agree to rename his MClasses to MSEClasses, since
more people is using the library (that's my guess).

Is there a risk of bloating the program by duplicatrd code? It sounds to me
that Martin's and yours MClasses are doing pretty much the same thing.
With Namespaces such code duplication will become very welcomed.

thanks,
Dmitry
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