[omniORB] IDL Case

[Duncan Grisby]

On Tuesday 19 June, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:58:48AM -0500, Stephen P. White wrote:

> > I have old IDL code which was written with Fnorb.   We would like to
> > convert to omniORBpy but have a case issue.  Under Fnorb the IDL shown
> > below was legal.
> > 
> > module m {
> >  interface M {
> >  };
> >  };

[...]
> To get a list of all the command-line flags to omniidl, type:
>  omniidl -u
> 
> You will see a flag:
>   -nc             Do not treat identifiers differing only in case as an error

Despite the fact that I implemented this flag, I strongly advise
everyone not to use it. The IDL is illegal, and more and more IDL
compilers are coming to treat it as such. I think it's better to fix
broken IDL as soon as possible, rather than carrying on with a
work-around. One day, you might find yourself having to use an ORB
which doesn't have the work-around. It's better to change the IDL now,
rather than later when there's even more stuff to change.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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