On 13.10.2017 21:32, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:42:27 -0300 >> "Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> [...] >>> I thought that only units included in package would be visible outside >>> (other programs/packages) but I realized that doesn't matter if were >>> included or not, the visibility is defined only by path (-Fu). >> >> Correct. Unit names must be unique in a program. > > Right. But when we use 3rd packages, we don't control which names they > will use to name their units. > Moreover, I believe each package should work only in a bounded > context. Its developers should not named their files considering that > these names could be used in a bigger context. Don't you agree? > > IMHO, would be better if packages may have just some "exported units". > What do you think?
It doesn't matter. Any symbols in a unit are mangled only locally to the unit and there *can not* be two or more symbols with the same name in one program. What you ask for is simply not possible. Regards, Sven -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
