Duplicate LOCAL Name

[William Mitchell]

Can someone explain why this duplicate of a name in the API is a problem? I thought explicitly declared LOCAL variable name duplicates were allowed.

#INCLUDE "WIN32API.INC"
FUNCTION MyFunction()
LOCAL WndClass AS WndClassEx
.
.
.
Error 466 ...(705:11): Duplicate name definition: WNDCLASS
Line 705: LOCAL wndclass AS WndClassEx

It compiled without error after changing "wndclass" to "MyWndClass"

[Kev Peel]

William,

WNDCLASS is already defined as a UDT in win32api.inc, so there is a naming conflict. You cannot name variables with names that are already in use. The same would happen if you defined TYPE MYCLASS, FUNCTION/SUB/MACRO MYCLASS, or LOCAL/GLOBAL/DIM MYCLASS AS [..], as the name "MYCLASS" can only be used once.

[William Mitchell]

No Problem

Thanks Kev,
I was hoping for a NAMESPACE or MODULE qualifier syntax but the limitation is easy to live with.