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From: Tom Schneider
Subject: gpc-20030209 (capitalization error)
Date: 18 Feb 2003, 23:37:54

> > A tiny bit of punctuation would help:
> > foo.pas:42: Capitalization of identifier "<current>" doesn't match original one.
> > foo.pas:17: The original capitalization is "<original>".
> 
> Well, most other errors don't include puncutation, and no complete
> sentences. So it would be unsystematic to make this one different.

Sigh.  Maybe it's time to start making them more clear?  If not, how
about:

foo.pas:42: capitalization of identifier "<current>" doesn't match original one
foo.pas:17: the original capitalization is "<original>"

The quote marks would help.

> > Note that I substituted 'original' throughout for clarity.  (Surely
> > you don't mean the *previous* one - the one that just preceeded?  In
> > that case it would yell for the third item in this series:   Knifefish
> > ... KnifeFish ... Knifefish.  I would think it should only object to
> > the second one.)
> 
> No, sorry. Storing *all* capitalisations is extra effort. Since
> someone who uses this warning is supposed to want uniform
> capitalisation, I don't think the effort is worth it ...

No, I thought that you would only store the first one ("original") and
compare all later ones ("current") to that.  Generally the first one
is the definition, so this should work fine.  In this case it WOULD
only object to the second case.  If, on the other hand, you store the
PREVIOUS one, it would object to both the second KnifeFish AND the
third Knifefish, even though that matches the original (first)
definition.  That could be rather confusing to someone.  ("Why is it
yelling at me for this one?  It's right!")

Hmm.  I just realized that there is a question of scope here.  Are you
making a pushdown stack for this?

var Knifefish ...

procedure capture;
var KnifeFish ...
begin
 ...
end;

It should not object to this case.

Tom

  Dr. Thomas D. Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms@ncifcrf.gov
  permanent email: toms@alum.mit.edu (use only if first address fails)
  http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/

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