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A pascal program consists of the program header, followed possibly by a
'uses' clause, and a block.
Programs
The program header is provided for backwards compatibility, and is ignored
by the compiler.
The uses clause serves to identify all units that are needed by the program.
The system unit doesn't have to be in this list, since it is always loaded
by the compiler.
The order in which the units appear is significant, it determines in
which order they are initialized. Units are initialized in the same order
as they appear in the uses clause. Identifiers are searched in the opposite
order, i.e. when the compiler searches for an identifier, then it looks
first in the last unit in the uses clause, then the last but one, and so on.
This is important in case two units declare different types with the same
identifier.
When the compiler looks for unit files, it adds the extension .ppu
(.ppw for WINDOWS NT) to the name of the unit. On LINUX, unit names
are converted to all lowercase when looking for a unit.
If a unit name is longer than 8 characters, the compiler will first look for
a unit name with this length, and then it will truncate the name to 8
characters and look for it again.
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