Re: Name Mangling: Case-sensitive -> insensitive

gsc@zip.com.au (Sean Case)
4 Dec 1999 22:31:19 -0500

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From: gsc@zip.com.au (Sean Case)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 4 Dec 1999 22:31:19 -0500
Organization: Marginal
References: 99-12-018
Keywords: translator, linker

dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org wrote:
> I'm working on a compiler that compiles Modula-3 into Ada. Part of the
> problem is that Modula-3 is case-sensitive, whereas Ada is
> not. Modula-3 also allows double-underlines in identifiers, while Ada
> doesn't. Is there anyway I can map the M3 identifers into Ada and keep
> it recognizable as the original identifer (for debugging and stuff)?


Henry Baker wrote an article for ACM Ada Letters in 1993 on encoding
Common Lisp symbols as Ada-83 identifiers.


ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/Encode.html
ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/Encode.ps.Z


Sean Case
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