Re: Hyphen in bigloo modules with Java backend?

Hello Joseph.

You wrote, 2021-02-12 01:27:
> I am seeing the same issue as you with newer versions of Java.
> Although not
> ideal, if you had not already noted it, the contents of the modules do not
> need to change only the file name. For example, I have a module named
> sorted-bag in file name sorted-bag.scm. To accommodate the stricter Java
> identifier constraints in newer Java versions,

Thanks.
It seems that - with a recent security update - thes stricter identifier
constraints were back-ported to Java 8 :-(

> I only needed to change the filename to
> sorted_bag.scm; the contents did not need to change at all. For my
> projects, this file renaming was relatively easy to do.

Yes, this worked for me too, but a name mangler in bigloo would be cool.

Ciao
Sven

> Best Regards,
> Joe
>
> On Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 10:08:27 AM PST, <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Sven,
>
>> Normally, I use the C backend, but for some legacy application I need
>> the Java backend. With newer versions of Java (e.g. 11.0.10), I cannot run
>> my stable
>> code anymore, probably because the hyphen in class names is now a hard
>> error:
>>
>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassFormatError: Illegal class name
>> "Tool/srfi-xyz" in class file Tool/general
>>
>> Can bigloo help here?
>> Or do I really have to rename all my bigloo modules that contain a hyphen
>> (-)?
> I'm not sure I will be able to help here. I have face similar problems at
> one point but I cannot remember what I did to solve them and checking the
> git log is not of much help.
>
> --
> Manuel
>
> ps: I'm too busy these days so I'm not able to fix the few remaining
> problems that prevent the release of 4.4b. All these problems are about
> some Java tests that do not pass yet (or that do not pass anymore). As
> soon as I find the time to fix that, the version is released.