[Lazarus] Wrong Duplicate Identifier error message?
Special
special at joepgen.com
Thu Jul 2 08:38:00 CEST 2020
Am 01.07.2020 um 20:36 schrieb Mattias Gaertner via lazarus:
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 20:15:45 +0200
> Special via lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> the following unit throws an (I think wrong) compile error "Duplicate
>> identifier 'Connection'". This happens Lazarus with 2.0.8 under Win
>> 10 (64). According to Nicklaus Wirth and Kathleen Jensen ('Pascal
>> User Manual and Report') there is no duplicate identifier in this
>> unit, since 'Connection' in procedure Proc ist strictly local and
>> does not interfere with Identfiers outside this procedure.
> You are aware, that this manual was way before Object Pascal?
>
>
>> Code:
>>
>> unit DoubleDefinition;
>> {$mode objfpc}{$H+}
> $mode objfpc is more strict on duplicates.
> FPC supports other modes like $mode Delphi, which allows this
> duplicate.
>
> Mattias
Here there is no Duplicate Identifier error message:
program Duplicate;
{$mode objfpc}{$H+}
var TestVar: string;
procedure Proc;
var TestVar: string;
begin
TestVar:= 'zwei';
writeln (TestVar)
end;
begin
TestVar:= 'eins';
writeln (TestVar);
Proc
end.
Why this inconsistency?
Regards -- Joe
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