Re: Spell checking identifiers

Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
Fri, 10 Jul 2020 07:12:27 -0000 (UTC)

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From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 07:12:27 -0000 (UTC)
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References: 20-06-010 20-06-013 20-06-017 20-07-002
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Keywords: lex, history, C, Fortran
Posted-Date: 10 Jul 2020 11:23:35 EDT

mac <acolvin@efunct.com> schrieb:
>> You might not want J1 and J_one in the same program.
>
> Similarly, some ancient compiler (Euclid?) had case-insensitive lookup, but
> required the same capitalization everywhere


Fortran has a a bit of a similar issue with its C interoperability
feature.


Entities with C binding have global identifiers in Fortran. Fortran
is a case-insensitive laguage, so FooBar and foobar look the same
to Fortran, and you can not have a C binding to both (but either
one would work).


In practice, this should not be a big problem.

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