capitalisation warning

15 Apr 2003

      I always prefer to get my code compiling with -Wall without warnings if at all possible.  But it seems to be that the capitalisation warning is a little over the top:

program test;

type
  MyInt = Integer;
  MyRec = record
    myint: Integer;
  end;

begin
end.

complains about that capitalisation of myint and MyInt.  To me, these two have nothing to do with each other.

I would have thought the warning would only apply to the case where a references to an identifier is different to that with which it was defined.  So var a: MYINT; would complain, as would rec.myInt, but 

type
  MyInt = Integer;
  MyRec = record
    myint: Integer;
  end;
  MyRec2 = record
    MYINT: Integer;
  end;

var
  myInt: Integer;

should not generate any warnings.

Is this a limitation in the way GPC handles identifiers (perhaps in the hash table or some such), or is this a deliberate design decision?

Thanks,
   Peter.

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capitalisation warning

Peter N Lewis