[fpc-pascal] Namespaces Support

[Marcos Douglas]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Dmitry Boyarintsev
<skalogryz.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)

Ok.
But if this problem happen in two third-party codes? How will you fix
this? Change the third-party code yourself?

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

There is a mseclasses already... so, he can't rename to mseclasses.
But it was just an example.

> 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

Namespaces, IMHO, should allow the user (programmer) to change the
path -- or something smarter -- where they can not change third-party
library codes.

Marcos Douglas