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Hello,

I have the line
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(c)
in my program together with
#using System.Diagnostics
This compiles under Vulcan.

I get the following error:
XS9002 Parser: unexpected input '.'
I tried substituing the '.' with ':' but I could not find a possibility to geth compiled this code.

Arne

Strange, i get:
Compilation failed (1 error)
error XS0234: The type or namespace name 'Debug' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Diagnostics' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

Hi Arne,

I tried to reproduce your message, but I can't, sorry
Karl, you need a reference to System

Arne, Karl,

Vulcan includes System by default. X# does, as I know, include nothing in the reference list. I had to all those missing references in my old Vulcan code too.

Frank

Hi Arne & guys,

This looks like a problem with a conjunction of the DEBUG symbol that is automatically defined when compiling in debug mode and the /vo8 compiler option which makes defines non case sensitive. I think we'll need to modify a bit the way the preprocessor works, will log a report about this. In the meantime, please add a @@ (which tells the preprocesor not to touch the word that follows) before Debug, as in:

System.Diagnostics.@@Debug.WriteLine(c)

or

@@Debug.WriteLine(c)

Chris

Thanks,
this works.

Arne

Hey, that's why I like case sensivity.

Frank

Hi Frank,

> Hey, that's why I like case sensivity.

In general I like it, too, but I hate it that you can define (in c# for example) identifiers with the same name, different case. It is so easy for example to define both a oXml and a oXML local in the same method and then accidentally use one instead of the other..

Chris

Chris,

just tested it. You're right, this is true for C#, but not for Vulcan. In Vulcan case sensivity was only applied to member and type names, not to LOCALs. What a mess.

But: your test's would fail for this case. And in small methods you should see it directly .

Frank

Arne,

This is fixed in the next build.

Robert