Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Bliss
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 03:45:54 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 27
Message-ID: <v7a35i$28ect$1@dont-email.me>
References: <v6r3od$30fgj$2@dont-email.me> <v6r7ev$312bs$1@dont-email.me>
	<v6raga$31ano$2@dont-email.me> <v6rfb3$31ano$6@dont-email.me>
	<v6sj58$38thk$1@dont-email.me> <v6srvb$3dvs2$1@dont-email.me>
	<v6stoc$3e8kc$1@dont-email.me> <v6t6tk$3fnd2$1@dont-email.me>
	<v6uogo$3o567$2@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 05:45:55 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9a105d93edfb2dbcb4f0f989ba6cd483";
	logging-data="2374045"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/sx1iGU3vk8RQgSh9l/Kne"
User-Agent: Pan/0.158 (Avdiivka; )
Cancel-Lock: sha1:LgCJcuxvQt4bce2kE4V8M8UNoEU=
Bytes: 2449

On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 16:36:39 -0400, Hunter Goatley wrote:

> On 7/13/2024 2:30 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> Slightly annoying that global names must be uppercased.
> 
> Yeah.

Tried this patch, and my compiler build is now case-sensitive. Builtin
and reserved names must still be uppercased, but your own symbols
(particularly references to names defined in C code) can be
lowercased:

diff -u lib/frontend/scanner.c{-orig,}
--- lib/frontend/scanner.c-orig 2024-07-13 10:52:16.426465872 +1200
+++ lib/frontend/scanner.c      2024-07-18 15:39:51.026148083 +1200
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@
     '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
     0, 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N', 'O',
     'P', 'Q', 'R', 'S', 'T', 'U', 'V', 'W', 'X', 'Y', 'Z', 0, 0, 0, 0, '_',
-    0, 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N', 'O',
-    'P', 'Q', 'R', 'S', 'T', 'U', 'V', 'W', 'X', 'Y', 'Z', 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
+    0, 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o',
+    'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z', 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
     0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
     0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
     0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,