It actually is also helpful to quickly see the difference between Obj-c/C methods/functions & Ruby methods. It also helps with documentation.
I agree with Joshua, I don't see that change happening anytime soon either. - Matt Sent from my iPhone On Nov 14, 2010, at 12:49, Joshua Ballanco <jball...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Scott, > > MacRuby's spiritual predecessor RubyCocoa did this sort of substitution of > camelCase for under_case. However, I don't foresee this name-mangling being a > part of MacRuby's near future for one very important reason: MacRuby methods > *are* Objective-C methods. > > I'm not aware of the particulars of the IronRuby or JRuby bridges, but in the > case of RubyCocoa, there is a translation step to get from a Ruby method name > to an Objective-C selector. In MacRuby, there is no transation step. MacRuby > method names are Objective-C selectors and vice versa. So, we'd have to *add* > a step in the method dispatch to do translation (since there isn't already > one). It's not impossible, but I would guess it's pretty low on the priority > list at the moment. > > Cheers, > > Josh > > > On Nov 14, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Scott Lowe wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Both JRuby and IronRuby support translation from 'native' CamelCase method >> names to the >> lowercase_with_underscores naming convention in idiomatic Ruby. >> >> They IronRuby guys call this "name-mangling": >> http://ironruby.net/Documentation/.NET/Names >> >> I had an expectation that this would be the case with MacRuby, but I now >> know that this is >> not true. Are there any plans to implement this feature in the future? You >> can probably guess >> that I like this feature an awful lot. >> >> Regards, >> >> Scott >> _______________________________________________ >> MacRuby-devel mailing list >> MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
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