Re: [Oorexx-devel] Question ad UNKNOWN resp. the Message class ...

[Rick M. <obj...@gm...>]

No, it is not.  The message name has been translated to uppercase long
before the UNKNOWN method gets involved.

Rick

On 9/8/07, Rony G. Flatscher <Ron...@wu...> wrote:
>
>  Hi there,
>
> this is (because of the possible ramifications) probably something only
> Rick could answer quickly (like with a yes or no).
>
> Would it be possible/conceivable for the UNKNOWN method to retrieve the
> first argument (message name) *not* automatically translated into uppercase
> (e.g. if embedding the message name in quotes, or using the message class
> to prepare and send a message?
>
> E.g.:
>
> t=.test~new
> t~"Title"
> t~"< Author >"
>
> .message~new(t, "... aloha!")~send
>
> ::class    test
> ::method UNKNOWN
>   use arg msgName, msgArgs  /* methName will be always in uppercase */
>   say msgName
>
>  yields (message names translated to uppercase):
>
> TITLE
> < AUTHOR >
> ... ALOHA!
>
>  (Probably the message class is responsible for this uppercasing of the
> message name.)
>
> ---rony
>
>
> P.S.: The reason for asking is as follows: the new .Properties class (a
> subclass of the Directory class) in 3.2.0 uses the property keys
> verbatimly and does not translate them into uppercase (the property keys do
> get stripped of leading and trailing blanks). So attempting to retrieve a
> property by sending the name of the property key enclosed in quotes as a
> message does not work, if the property key was not all in uppercase.
>
> E.g. given the property text file "abc.props":
>
> Title     =The Most Impressive Experience
> < Author >=Doe, Mary
> ... aloha!=Doe, John
>  XYZ      =Eggs, why, tsed
>
>    and the following program:
>
> p=.Properties~load("abc.props")
> say "Retrieved the following properties:"
> do  k over p~allIndexes~sort
>     say "  keyname="pp(k)~left(13)", p[k]="pp(p[k])
> end
> say "---"
>
> say "Trying to use the message version:"
> say
> say "Message:          returned:"
> say "---------------------------"
> say pp('p~"Title"')~left(17)       || "="pp(p~"Title")
> say pp('p~"< Author >"')~left(17)  || "="pp(p~"< Author >")
> say pp('p~"... aloha!"')~left(17)  || "="pp(p~"... aloha!")
> say
> say pp('p~"xyz"')~left(17)         || "="pp(p~"xyz")
> say pp('p~"XYZ"')~left(17)         || "="pp(p~"XYZ")
> say
> say pp('p~xyz')~left(17)           || "="pp(p~xyz)
>
>
> ::routine pp
>   parse arg s
>   return "["s"]"
>
>    yields:
>
> Retrieved the following properties:
>   keyname=[... aloha!] , p[k]=[Doe, John]
>   keyname=[< Author >] , p[k]=[Doe, Mary]
>   keyname=[Title]      , p[k]=[The Most Impressive Experience]
>   keyname=[XYZ]        , p[k]=[Eggs, why, tsed]
> ---
> Trying to use the message version:
>
> Message:          returned:
> ---------------------------
> [p~"Title"]      =[The NIL object]
> [p~"< Author >"] =[The NIL object]
> [p~"... aloha!"] =[The NIL object]
>
> [p~"xyz"]        =[Eggs, why, tsed]
> [p~"XYZ"]        =[Eggs, why, tsed]
>
> [p~xyz]          =[Eggs, why, tsed]
>
>  If it was possible to get the message name in the UNKNOWN method not
> automatically uppercased in the above program, then it would be possible to
> retrieve the properties of property keys that have mixed names via the
> UNKNOWN implementation of the Directory class which is the superclass of the
> Properties class.
>
>
>
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