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### import

#### Synopsis

         program @@fragment foo;

         import
           bar1;
           bar3 (baz1 => glork1) in 'baz.pas';
           bar2 only (baz2, baz3 => glork2);

         [...]

#### Description

The reserved word `import` in the import part of a program makes the program import an interface.

The `in` above tells GPC to look for the module in the specified file; otherwise the file name is derived from the name of the interface by adding first `.p`, then `.pas` – which only works if the name of the exported interface coincides with the file name.

The symbol `=>` denotes import renaming: The entity which is exported under the name `baz1` by the interface `bar3` will be known under the new name `glork1` in the program.

The `only` qualifier means that only the listed identifiers will be imported from the interface. Renaming works together with `only`, too.

There must be at most one import part in a program.

The interfaces needn't be exported by Extended Pascal modules but may be UCSD/Borland Pascal units as well.

#### Conforming to

`import` and modules in general are an ISO 10206 Extended Pascal extension.

GNU Pascal does not yet support `qualified` import.

#### Example

#### See also

Keywords, module, unit, uses.