[Laszlo-dev] org.openlaszlo.sc.CompilerError: class names only differ by upper/lower case: "Top" versus "top"

[P T Withington]

Maybe we just need to come up with an encoding for the names to  
indicate case.  Is the filesystem case-insensitive if you use a utf8  
filename?

On 2008-08-06, at 09:36EDT, Donald Anderson wrote:

> Well, I think both 'var top' and 'class Top' are competing for
> file name top.as vs. Top.as.
>
> We can always use subdirectories to distinguish names (I think!).
> Your idiom seems natural to me, and makes it seem like we
> should try it.  For example, all globals are pushed to their
> own directory:
>   global/top.as
>
> You still wouldn't be able to have classes or globals that
> aren't distinguished within their own set.  If we wanted full
> distinguishing, we'd have to do something like:
>
>   0/ClassName.as
>   1/AnotherClassName.as
>
> yuck.
>
> - Don
>
> On Aug 6, 2008, at 8:51 AM, P T Withington wrote:
>
>> I should have included my example code:
>>
>>> <canvas debug="true" >
>>> <script when="immediate">
>>>   var free = 'outer';
>>>
>>>   class Top {
>>>     function test () { return free; }
>>>   }
>>>
>>>   class Sub extends Top {
>>>     var free = 'inner';
>>>
>>>     function test () { return free; }
>>>   }
>>>
>>>   var top = new Top;
>>>   var sub = new Sub;
>>>   Debug.info("top.test() => %s", top.test());
>>>   Debug.info("sub.test() => %s", sub.test());
>>> </script>
>>> </canvas>
>>
>> There is only one class Top.  Is the check overly conservative?
>>
>> On 2008-08-06, at 08:39EDT, Donald Anderson wrote:
>>
>>> That check is in because classes must be named to files.
>>> Class Glorp must be in file Glorp.as.  But some file systems
>>> including MacOS, do not have complete distinguishing between case:
>>>
>>> $ echo foo >> glorp.as
>>> $ echo bar >> Glorp.as
>>> $ cat glorp.as
>>> foo
>>> bar
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 6, 2008, at 8:06 AM, P T Withington wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why am I getting this error when compiling to swf9?
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Don Anderson
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>>>
>>> voice: 617-547-7881
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
>
> Don Anderson
> Java/C/C++, Berkeley DB, systems consultant
>
> voice: 617-547-7881
> email: dda at ddanderson.com
> www: http://www.ddanderson.com
>
>
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