existing patches [Re: [boo-dev] [jira] Commented: (BOO-128) case-insensitive option]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:14:45 -0500 (EST), 
jira-yCVjj/EcxBJg9hUCZPvPmw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<jira-yCVjj/EcxBJg9hUCZPvPmw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> O-K, I just noticed this issue. Is there a functional problem with these 
> patches as to why they haven't been applied? Too much integration problems?

Rodrigo wants to redesign the compiler and have case-insensitive
comparisons be an optional service.

I could update the patch against the latest sources. But my patch
didn't handle things that were developed later, like the boo
interpreter, the sharpdevelop add-in, and IQuackFu.

Anyway, here's a summary of some of the patches out there, and I tried
to guess what would be needed to be done for each one, if this is of
help to Rodrigo.

For almost all these patches, we would need to create test cases and examples.


Multi-dimensional arrays
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/BOO-173
I contacted Peter about updating his patch.  I'll look at it too.  I
think we decided on a "matrix" builtin function for creating
multidimensional arrays.  I don't know if we decided on (int,3)
(int*3) or (int^3).  The patch says that it uses (int,3).

partial classes
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/BOO-224