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

[Henry Minsky]

I think the flex compiler, like Java, requires that the file name be
the same as the top level definition which
it publishes, so there's not any choice of file name for a given
global declaration.



On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 12:13 PM, P T Withington <ptw at pobox.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>> Java/C/C++, Berkeley DB, systems consultant
>>>>
>>>> voice: 617-547-7881
>>>> email: dda at ddanderson.com
>>>> www: http://www.ddanderson.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> 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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Henry Minsky
Software Architect
hminsky at laszlosystems.com