On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich <drdiettri...@aol.com> wrote: > Thaddy schrieb: > >> Programmers are not very imaginative in naming. It is plainly helpfull to >> be able to rename a file if another file with a different content..... > > Just in the FPC compiler case many unit names are hard coded, while the > files to use reside e.g. in a specific machine directory, selected in the > search path. When it becomes desireable to replace only one of these files, > as happened to me, then a solution could be to name that replacement file > differently from its contained unit name. > > Then it would be helpful to allow for exchangable file names, at least at > project/program level. Only then one can be sure that a specific file is > used across the entire project, regardless of all other files in the search > path.
I am surprised as there is no conflict of names of units in the FPC / Lazarus. There are names very short, which could be used as variable names... MD. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel