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7.3 Qualified Names<br />

<strong>Fortress</strong> provides a component system in which the entities declared in a component are described by an API. A<br />

component may import APIs, allowing it to refer to these entities declared by the imported APIs. In some cases,<br />

references to these entities must be qualified by the API name. <strong>The</strong>se qualified names can be used in any place that a<br />

simple name would be used had the entity been declared directly in the component rather than being imported. Note<br />

that qualified names are distinguished from simple names by the inclusion of a “ . ” token, so they never shadow, nor<br />

are they shadowed by, simple names. For further discussion on APIs and the component system, see Chapter 22.<br />

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