[m-rev.] diff: turn off name mangling on .NET backend

[Peter Ross]

fjh wrote:
> On 27-Feb-2002, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> >
> > compiler/mlds_to_il.m:
> >     There is no need to further mangle an id on the .NET backend, as
> >     identifiers don't need to consist of just alpha-numeric
entities.
>
> Won't that break CLS-compliance of the generated identifiers?
>
Yes you are right, however it solves for the moment a more serious
problem.  That is that this name mangling generates names which are too
long to be handled by the ilasm tool.  I am reading the Unicode spec for
what is allowable now and will implement those rules instead.  My quick
read seems to suggest that we can get away with anything providing the
first letter is alpha-numeric.

Pete

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