0000120: Add identifier scoping to ZScript

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0000120	Gameplay + OpenGL	[All Projects] Feature	public	2017-01-25 12:43	2017-01-25 12:57

Reporter	Marrub
Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required

Summary	0000120: Add identifier scoping to ZScript
Description	C is nice and lets you do this: `typedef int i; int main(int argc, char *argv) { i i = 1; i:; goto i; return 0; }` ZScript, however, lacks this concept, and due to its case insensitivity makes this code really bad: `class A {} // in some function... A a; // error! aagh` If the language didn't have case insensitivity this wouldn't be as much* of an issue because of ZScript's tendency to use Unreal class and variable naming; but without proper identifier scoping or case sensitivity this gets really annoying sometimes.
Tags	ZScript

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2017-01-25 12:43	Marrub	New Issue
2017-01-25 12:45	Marrub	Tag Attached: ZScript
2017-01-25 12:56	Graf Zahl	Note Added: 0000235
2017-01-25 12:57	Graf Zahl	Status	new => closed
2017-01-25 12:57	Graf Zahl	Resolution	open => no change required
2017-01-29 21:18	Rachael	Category	Suggestion => Feature

Graf Zahl 2017-01-25 12:56 administrator ~0000235	It's not a bug - it's a feature! :P Seriously, naming variables the same as types is an open invitation to errors and requires a completely different level of parsing complexity. I wish I could undo the case insensitivity but that's so deeply ingrained in the code I inherited that it's not undoable.