[MacRuby-devel] Future MacRuby support for "name-mangling" ?

[Laurent Sansonetti]

Hi Scott,

Supporting this has been in discussion for a while, however I'm against it for consistency sake. If we allow methods to be defined or messaged using different styles, it can create confusion and ambiguity in some cases (especially if you start overloading methods).

If you have a good feature proposal in mind, feel free to describe it, maybe this could be implemented in a way confusion and ambiguity will be avoided.

Laurent

On Nov 14, 2010, at 8:51 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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