According to Maurice Lombardi:

I found only one annoying problem: the inexistence of prefixing of identifiers (e.g. unit1.proc1) to avoid name conflicts.

This is called "qualified identifiers", and it is planned to be implemented soon (together with Extended Pascal's `qualified' Module import and overloading of Procedures/Functions).

It also allows to redefine locally names of procedure to extend some properties

To work around: With GNU Pascal, you can have the source code of everything. It is no problem to rename the routines of Sven's "original" Graph Unit to something like "Graph_InitGraph" (thus emulating the dot by using an underscore) - or to build that additional functionality directly into the Unit you want to improve.

(I used it extensively to redefine procedures of the graph unit to incorporate simultaneous PostScript copy of screen functions: this allows to have either fast, screen only drawing, or slower, with PostScript copy, programs without changing a single line of code of the main program).

Sounds great! How about adding this to the GNU Pascal "contrib" directory? I am sure there are many people (including myself) who would greatly appreciate such a "PostScript Graph Unit".

Do you plan to do this soon, later or never, so that I can make a decision whether I need to rewrite the whole stuff with non conflicting names or wait until you have done it (I am not in a hurry, I can use for some time the Borland compiler).

I hope that I can finish this in 1997.

Many thanks anyway for your work: I am no more afraid that Pascal will disappear from the surface of earth due to the financial problems of Borland.

Thank you! :-) I am doing my best, and so do many people in this list. If you want to join our attempts - for example by contributing useful libraries -, be welcome!

Yours,

Peter

Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [970201] maintainer GNU Pascal [970401] - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [970125]