Hi Scott,

MacRuby's spiritual predecessor RubyCocoa did this sort of substitution of camelCase for under_case. However, I don't foresee this name-mangling being a part of MacRuby's near future for one very important reason: MacRuby methods *are* Objective-C methods.

I'm not aware of the particulars of the IronRuby or JRuby bridges, but in the case of RubyCocoa, there is a translation step to get from a Ruby method name to an Objective-C selector. In MacRuby, there is no transation step. MacRuby method names are Objective-C selectors and vice versa. So, we'd have to *add* a step in the method dispatch to do translation (since there isn't already one). It's not impossible, but I would guess it's pretty low on the priority list at the moment.

Cheers,

Josh

On Nov 14, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Scott Lowe wrote:

Hello,

Both JRuby and IronRuby support translation from 'native' CamelCase method names to the

lowercase_with_underscores naming convention in idiomatic Ruby.

They IronRuby guys call this "name-mangling": http://ironruby.net/Documentation/.NET/Names

I had an expectation that this would be the case with MacRuby, but I now know that this is
not true. Are there any plans to implement this feature in the future? You can probably guess
that I like this feature an awful lot.

Regards,

Scott
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