> Is it not possible *today* or never? Never, not without changing the way compiler manages units. FPC units are organized in folders for easier management at filesystem level, but filesystem is not the namespace, there can never be /first/path/to/a.pas and /second/path/to/a.pas used in a single program, because only that a identifies the unit, not the path to it. This is the same as you can't have two files with the same name under the same path. Indeed you can't control unit names written by 3rd party and collision might happen, so most package developers add prefix in their unit names (e.g. IdGlobals) or use the new dotted unit names (e.g. my.globals.types, your.globals.consts).
> So, the main program shouldn't know nothing about "private units" that > belongs only for the package. That is encapsulation too. Pascal unit is THE namespace, while most other languages uses filesystem as namespace. Namespace don't have visibility, only its contents have. -- Sent from: http://free-pascal-lazarus.989080.n3.nabble.com/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
