[omniORB] IDL Case

[Gary D. Duzan]

In Message <200106191846.NAA12020@poe.ttd.teradyne.com> ,
   hardgrav@ttd.teradyne.com (Richard Hardgrave) wrote:

=>> From owner-omniorb-list@uk.research.att.com Tue Jun 19 12:27 CDT 2001
=>> 
=>> To get a list of all the command-line flags to omniidl, type:
=>>  omniidl -u
=>
=>_Now_, ya' tell me.  Just curious - does this part of the specification
=>exist because there are backend compilers that are case insensitive?

   One of the goals of CORBA is language-independence. Since some
languages such as LISP/Scheme are case-insensitive, mapping
case-sensitive names to them would be a mess, so IDL is defined to
be case insensitive.

					Gary Duzan
					Verizon IT