• 0ffh (6/6) Nov 19 2007 There seems to be a lot of discussion about this,
• Jarrett Billingsley (4/10) Nov 19 2007 Then you have n different libraries which only differ by naming conventi...
• Ary Borenszweig (4/19) Nov 19 2007 Why not make D case-insensitive and also underscore-insensitive?
• Christopher Wright (12/20) Nov 19 2007 Yes. Fragmentation! How do I use my Tango-in-phobos-style library when
• 0ffh (7/10) Nov 19 2007 Hehe, users of precompiled libs will have to take the blame on themselve...
• Robert Fraser (2/4) Nov 19 2007 We've got men on the job!
• 0ffh (5/11) Nov 21 2007 Sheesh!
• Robert Fraser (7/20) Nov 22 2007 Well, it's a "planned" feature for Descent. But before we get any kind

0ffh <frank frankhirsch.youknow.what.todo.net> writes:

There seems to be a lot of discussion about this,
especially about the capitalisation used.
Could this question not be answered with a script
that goes over all modules and changes the source
to fit the diverse preferences?

Regards, Frank

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> writes:

"0ffh" <frank frankhirsch.youknow.what.todo.net> wrote in message 
news:fhrvlj$1ras$1 digitalmars.com...
 There seems to be a lot of discussion about this,
 especially about the capitalisation used.
 Could this question not be answered with a script
 that goes over all modules and changes the source
 to fit the diverse preferences?

 Regards, Frank

Then you have n different libraries which only differ by naming convention.

You can't please everybody, at least not practically. 

Ary Borenszweig <ary esperanto.org.ar> writes:

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
 "0ffh" <frank frankhirsch.youknow.what.todo.net> wrote in message 
 news:fhrvlj$1ras$1 digitalmars.com...
 There seems to be a lot of discussion about this,
 especially about the capitalisation used.
 Could this question not be answered with a script
 that goes over all modules and changes the source
 to fit the diverse preferences?

 Regards, Frank

 
 Then you have n different libraries which only differ by naming convention.
 
 You can't please everybody, at least not practically. 
 
 

<joke>Why not make D case-insensitive and also underscore-insensitive? 
That way anyone could use identifiers the way they like them. FooBar, 
fooBar and foo_bar would all be the same.</joke>

Christopher Wright <dhasenan gmail.com> writes:

0ffh wrote:
 
 There seems to be a lot of discussion about this,
 especially about the capitalisation used.
 Could this question not be answered with a script
 that goes over all modules and changes the source
 to fit the diverse preferences?
 
 Regards, Frank

Yes. Fragmentation! How do I use my Tango-in-phobos-style library when 
it depends on your Tango-in-Java-style library, and how does J Random 
Hacker use my library in his Tango-in-Pascal-style application?

Unless you want this script to be widely distributed and to work with 
most or all libraries, that is, in which case it would all work, until 
we get good support for precompiled (statically or dynamically linked) 
libraries in D. The current convention, compiling everything all the 
time, would support this regime.

Actually, I suppose that's only going to be a problem if you're using 
precompiled libraries that you didn't compile, or that you didn't 
convert before compiling.

0ffh <frank frankhirsch.youknow.what.todo.net> writes:

Christopher Wright wrote:
 Actually, I suppose that's only going to be a problem if you're using 
 precompiled libraries that you didn't compile, or that you didn't 
 convert before compiling.

Hehe, users of precompiled libs will have to take the blame on themselves.
Also, of course nobody could expect the Tango staff to give support for
the heretics, who'd have to care for themselves... =)
Maybe it's getting time that there were some refactoring Tools for D,
that'd make the problem easy (as long as you have all your source).

Regards, Frank

Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight gmail.com> writes:

0ffh wrote:

 Maybe it's getting time that there were some refactoring Tools for D,
 that'd make the problem easy (as long as you have all your source).

We've got men on the job!

0ffh <frank frankhirsch.youknow.what.todo.net> writes:

Robert Fraser wrote:
 0ffh wrote:
 
 Maybe it's getting time that there were some refactoring Tools for D,
 that'd make the problem easy (as long as you have all your source).

 
 We've got men on the job!

Sheesh!
I have totally overlooked this! Bad bad $me, $me needs to be punished!
Really? That sounds fine! Any links?

regards, frank

Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight gmail.com> writes:

0ffh wrote:
 Robert Fraser wrote:
 0ffh wrote:

 Maybe it's getting time that there were some refactoring Tools for D,
 that'd make the problem easy (as long as you have all your source).

 We've got men on the job!

 
 Sheesh!
 I have totally overlooked this! Bad bad $me, $me needs to be punished!
 Really? That sounds fine! Any links?
 
 regards, frank

Well, it's a "planned" feature for Descent. But before we get any kind 
of refactoring, we need semantic analysis, which we're working 
on/debugging right now... so it might be a while.

You can see the status over at:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent
http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent/browser/trunk/descent.core/src/descent/internal/compiler/parser