Hi Sorin, the IDL compiler is right. Tom, please see CORBA 3.0.3 paragraph ``3.2.3 Identifiers''.
Sorin thanks for your work on type any compilation issue on win32! Karel Sorin Mustaca wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > After a short investigation, I found out that the same applies to all > the IDL keywords. > So, "interface" is just a particular case (use String,Module,Sequence, > etc.) . > > I would not fix such a big issue without first carefully analyzing the > implications of such a change. > > Regards, > Sorin > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> some time ago we migrated to MICO 2.3.11 and recently we discovered >> some minor problems with the IDL compiler in this version of MICO. The >> following statement is copied from the changelog for 2.3.11: >> >> - fix IDL compiler to report error when identifier collides with IDL >> keyword >> >> Obviously this is a good fix, but I'm wondering whether there's really >> any reason for the check to be case insensitive. In 2.3.11 I cannot >> use the identifier '*Interface*' (<- capital 'I') for e.g. an >> enumerator because the check introduced matches this to the IDL >> keyword '*interface*' (<- no capital). >> >> This change seems to have been introduced in the ParseNode::setIdent >> method (idl/parsenode.cc) which now checks whether an identifier >> matches a keyword and reports an error if it does. To check this the >> KeywordMap::keyword method (idl/keymap.cc) is used. The keyword method >> is the one transforming all characters in the identifier to their >> lower case representations. >> >> So to my actual questions: >> >> Is there any reason based on the CORBA standard that requires this >> matching to be case /insensitive/? >> >> Do we risk breaking other functionality in MICO by changing this >> matching to be case /sensitive?/ >> >> Is this a potential fix for the next MICO version (making the check >> case /sensitive /and only report error when actual matches are made)? >> >> Regards, >> Tom >> -- >> Tom Wiggo Sørlikåseth >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mico-devel mailing list >> Mico-devel@mico.org >> http://www.mico.org/mailman/listinfo/mico-devel > -- Karel Gardas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ObjectSecurity Ltd. http://www.objectsecurity.com _______________________________________________ Mico-devel mailing list Mico-devel@mico.org http://www.mico.org/mailman/listinfo/mico-devel
