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mixed high and low caps filenames #4

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bamboospirit opened this issue Jan 25, 2019 · 1 comment
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mixed high and low caps filenames #4

bamboospirit opened this issue Jan 25, 2019 · 1 comment

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bamboospirit commented Jan 25, 2019

The filenames are not uniform, some of them are in HIGH CAPS, while others are in low caps. On windows it doesn't matter very much but on Linux this could be problematic, so it would be good to convert all the filenames to low caps.
At the moment they're really mixed up for: some filenames are in lowcaps, some are in high caps, some are in both low and high, some only have the extension (.F ) in high caps

It looks very inconsistent that sp-forth is case sensitive by default, but when it comes to file names, it's insensitive.

S" string.f" INCLUDED
S" string.F" INCLUDED
S" STRING.f" INCLUDED

are all equally valid...

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ruv commented Jan 30, 2019

Yes, it is a historical issue. And now we can't convert all file names into low case for the sake of backward compatibility in Linux (i.e. some programs can stop working).

In the next major version (that should not retain back compatibility) we can fix this issue. Such version is required due to conflicts with Forth 2012 Standard, for example in REQUIRE word.

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