Case-insensitive selectors

Travis Griggs tgriggs at keyww.com
Thu Jan 29 18:13:45 UTC 1998


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From: Dan Ingalls <DanI at wdi.disney.com>
To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: Case-insensitive selectors
Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 8:53 AM

<snip>

> 3.  One step which would help with the real problem, without any
significant > compatibility issues, would be to recognize and discourage
the definition of a method > whose pattern is equal to an existing pattern
in letters but not in case.

This seems like it might be an interesting thing to add the
RefactoringBrowser's suite of "warnings". Is any work being done to port RB
to Squeak? I know the idea's been kicked around, but have heard that anyone
is actually doing it.

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Travis Griggs
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