pce->syntax

pce ->syntax: syntax={uppercase}, word_separator=[char]

Some languages (notably LISP) use case-insensitive keywords, internally represented in upper-case. host-language keywords are most naturally mapped on PCE-names. This method, which is normally send by the LISP interface right after PCE has been initialised performs the following actions:

Map names to uppercase All predefined names of PCE that are strictly lowercase are mapped onto uppercase. This implies the lowercase equivalents disappear: classes, methods, variables and all other constants referred to in this manual will have uppercase names.
Change the word-separator. The default word separator of PCE,the’_’is replaced by the given character in all name objects.
Defaults: The default word separator is’_’(unchanged).

Bugs: To get compatible resource-handling, resources defined as type name will be mapped to uppercase (and have their word-separator changed) when converted. Also, generated object-identifiers (for fonts, classes, etc.) will be mapped to upper-case. The run-time generated keywords may lead to unexpected behaviour.

Finally, when converting of a bitmap- or image-name to a filename, the name is downcased. This makes it implossible to use automatic conversion when the file-name consists of uppercase characters.

See also
name->syntax