[Oberon] Re: Oberon digest, Vol 1 #39 - 5 msgs

[Charles Angelich]

>Message: 4
>Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:23:50 +1200 (NZST)
>From: Arnim Littek <arnim at med-dev.co.nz>
>To: oberon at inf.ethz.ch
>Subject: Re: [Oberon] Oberon filenames
>Reply-To: oberon at inf.ethz.ch
>
>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?

Might be better to request an override.  If the underscore suddenly becomes
a `legal' filename in newer versions files will exist that within that
version that will `break' existing installs. :-\

I could see it as relatively harmless as an option to allow the illegal
characters on an as-need basis.



Charles Angelich

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