[openorb-devel] [ openorb-Bugs-1415003 ] Should be case insensitive

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Bugs item #1415003, was opened at 2006-01-25 15:47
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Category: OpenORB
Group: 1.4.0
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Cary (carysweet)
Assigned to: Lars Kühne (lkuehne)
Summary: Should be case insensitive

Initial Comment:
> is the IDL usually case insensitive or not?

IDL is a mixed bag, it is both case sensitive and case 
insensitive. This was done to allow simple mappings to 
both kinds of programing languages, those that are and 
those that are not case sensitive.

The first rule is that in a given scope an identifier 
must always be spelled in exactly the same way 
including case. This is the case sensitive aspect of 
IDL.

The second rule is that it is illegal for two  
dentifiers in the same scope to differ only in case. 
This is the case insensitive aspect of IDL: For the 
purpose of detecting name clashes case does not matter.

>    doSomething(MyStruct myStruct)
> 
> is this allowed?

No, this is illegal.

> openOrb takes it without problems,
> 
> OmniOrb claims this is wrong:
>
> Who is right?

OmniOrb is right.



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