> On May 6, 2018, at 2:40 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
> <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> The namespaces in Object Pascal are merely a convenience thing. E.g. Delphi
> prefixed many of the existing units (like SysUtils became System.SysUtils,
> Windows became WinApi.Windows and Forms became VCL.Forms (or so)). They did
> this so that FireMonkey units can share unit names with the VCL (e.g.
> FMX.Forms). But to keep backwards compatibility with old code Delphi projects
> have by default their default namespace list set to something like "System,
> WinApi, VCL" so that such code continues to compile.
>
So I could use this feature if I used dotted file names like Utils.Foo.pas? I
never thought of doing that before so this is al news to me.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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