Subverting case insensitivity for module names under Mac HFS
Andy Armstrong
andy at hexten.net
Mon Jun 23 13:50:47 BST 2008
On 23 Jun 2008, at 10:52, Andy Wardley wrote:
> Has anyone come across this before and found an easy and/or elegant
> way to
> work around it? The only approach that comes to mind is to let the
> module
> get loaded and then do some symbol table inspection to figure out
> what the
> class name really is. But that requires some messy OS detection and
> smells
> a bit like apple-scented camel droppings to me. Anyone got any
> better ideas?
I guess the same problem would be present on Windows and VMS?
Ignoring systems that don't even preserve case (VMS?) I guess you
could walk @INC and, when you find a match, opendir / readdir and
check the actual case of the found module?
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Andy Armstrong, Hexten
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