petdance/scratch — Issue #987: .HLL should not case-mangle its arg
Author: petdance
Created: 2011-11-01 05:38:43+00:00
State: open
Labels: hll_interop, Pri-major, rfc, Sev-low

In many cases, .HLL 'Donut' is the same as .HLL 'donut'; however, in some cases (e.g. ParrotInterpreter.hll_map()), it's not.
I recommend that to avoid any potential for confusion, we remove any case mangling and treat the HLL exactly specified in the directive.

If we get consensus on this, we can add a deprecation notice for 1.4 and change it immediately after release.

Originally http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/777