JAV2I12 — Java to IDL identifier mapping

Summary: orbos/98-02-01 says:

We have provided name manglings to work around [the limitations],
but we recommend that OMG consider extending the definitions of
IDL identifiers so that a wider range of unicode characters can
be supported and so that case is significant in distinguishing
identifiers.

I would suggest to remove this recommendation because it is pragmatically
unimplementable for implementation languages that do not support
extended character sets. If the OMG were to take this step, it would
effectively alienate CORBA from all such implementation languages, which
I believe would be detrimental to the success of CORBA.

Because overloaded methods are a popular feature in object-oriented
programming languages we recommend that OMG considers extending
IDL to allow overloaded methods.

Again, I suggest to remove the recommendation because it is pragmatically
unimplementable. Steve Vinoski recently posted an interesting article
on this topic in comp.object.corba – I have attached a copy below.

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