Hi. I'm implementing <https://github.com/cgay/protocol-buffers> protocol
buffers for a case-insensitive language (Dylan) and I'm wondering if
there's prior art that would give me an idea how to handle the following
case:
message M {
string S = 1;
oneof O {
string s = 2;
}
}
Since fields M.S and M.s are siblings, the names to access those fields
will collide. I can generate the name "s*" for lowercase "s". Since "*" is
invalid in proto field names that's future proof.
So I think I have a way forward but I'm curious if anyone knows of other
languages that have already addressed this, and what they did.
The Common Lisp implementation ignores the problem and relies on it not
happening. The docs for the PHP implementation don't mention this
particular problem. (They do mention reserved names such as Empty being
renamed to PBEmpty, but that's not a problem for Dylan.)
Thoughts? Prayers?
Thanks.
-Carl
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