Re: config files proposal

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>]

dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) writes:

> Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:<3CFB94A7.A455B8DD@san.rr.com>... 
> > I think they should be case sensitive unless there's a standard way of
> > converting uppercase unicode to lowercase unicode in Ada's libraries.
> 
> We need to match up well with what's in the Ada standard I think. 
> 
> The Ada standard has an Ada.Strings.Maps.Constants.Lower_Case_Map and
> an Ada.Strings.Wide_Maps.Wide_Constants.Lower_Case_Map. There is no
> reason why we can't define things to say that keys will be fed through
> the appropriate Lower_Case_Map before being matched.

Good point.

> If the language itself has some kind of problem with
> Ada.Strings.Wide_Maps.Wide_Constants.Lower_Case_Map, I say that is
> the language's problem, and outside the scope of a configuration
> item facility to try to worry about fixing. As long as we define
> what we are doing carfully this way, it is still explicit. If we
> stick to using the standard library, things should at least behave
> for people the way they have come to expect them to behave when
> using Ada.

According to my interpretation of recent posts by Robert Dewar (is
that qualified enough :), there is very little use of Wide_String. So
it's not clear whether Lower_Case_Map is "what people expect". But I
agree it would be a good place to start. 

Perhaps case sensitivity should be an option in the config file API.

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-- Stephe