On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Stephen Weeks <[email protected]> wrote:
> Right now, several HLLs are registering their name (with compreg
> and .HLL) as uppercase, but generating pbcs with lowercase names. For
> example, compreg Perl6 vs. perl6.pbc.
>
> This causes problems with the load_language opcode, possibly among other
> situations. For load_language to be used with current languages, either
> load_language would need to downcase its argument, or HLLs will need to
> downcase their arguments to load_language. Passing the same argument
> with different cases to similar opcodes feels hackish. I'd prefer
> everything be case-sensitive and consistent, but everything consistently
> being case-insensitive about HLL names would be acceptable too.
>
> Allison wants feedback on this from the general pool of HLL developers.
>
> Please comment.
I would prefer everything to be case-sensitive. Although there is the
possibility of accidentally using a capital letter somewhere ("D'Oh! I
used 'perl6.pbc' instead of 'Perl6.pbc'! "), from a didactic point of
view it is more useful, IMHO. (the way I learn stuff is looking at
examples, and suppose 2 different spellings are used, then I "match"
where one spelling is used, and where the other one is used, if you
know what I mean).
cheers,
kjs
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