[Oberon] Oberon filenames

Arnim Littek arnim at med-dev.co.nz
Thu Aug 8 23:23:50 CEST 2002


On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Douglas G. Danforth wrote:
> Treutwein Bernhard wrote:
> > > Pardon my "newbie" question here but what is there about "DUG_IDE.C"
> > > that Oberon finds problematic as a filename?
> >
> > the underscore !
>
> BlackBox very nicely solves this problem by allowing underscore
> to be a valid character for identifiers (and names).  Makes converting
> from C to Component Pascal much nicer.

...which begs the obvious question.  I should dig into the source for
an answer, but really, how hard would it be to alter the source to
accommodate an underscore?

Arnim.




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