From 97129ebd8af6083ba3ae656226833d026a80a416 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Araq <rumpf_a@web.de>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 21:58:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] added another version of eqIdent

---
 lib/core/macros.nim | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/core/macros.nim b/lib/core/macros.nim
index 678982a522..2e3596d0fc 100644
--- a/lib/core/macros.nim
+++ b/lib/core/macros.nim
@@ -818,6 +818,8 @@ proc cmpIgnoreStyle(a, b: cstring): int {.noSideEffect.} =
     else: result = c
   var i = 0
   var j = 0
+  # first char is case sensitive
+  if a[0] != b[0]: return 1
   while true:
     while a[i] == '_': inc(i)
     while b[j] == '_': inc(j) # BUGFIX: typo
@@ -828,9 +830,23 @@ proc cmpIgnoreStyle(a, b: cstring): int {.noSideEffect.} =
     inc(i)
     inc(j)
 
-proc eqIdent* (a, b: string): bool = cmpIgnoreStyle(a, b) == 0
+proc eqIdent*(a, b: string): bool = cmpIgnoreStyle(a, b) == 0
   ## Check if two idents are identical.
 
+proc eqIdent*(node: NimNode; s: string): bool {.compileTime.} =
+  ## Check if node is some identifier node (``nnkIdent``, ``nnkSym``, etc.)
+  ## is the same as ``s``. Note that this is the preferred way to check! Most
+  ## other ways like ``node.ident`` are much more error-prone, unfortunately.
+  case node.kind
+  of nnkIdent:
+    result = node.ident == !s
+  of nnkSym:
+    result = eqIdent($node.symbol, s)
+  of nnkOpenSymChoice, nnkClosedSymChoice:
+    result = eqIdent($node[0], s)
+  else:
+    result = false
+
 proc hasArgOfName* (params: NimNode; name: string): bool {.compiletime.}=
   ## Search nnkFormalParams for an argument.
   assert params.kind == nnkFormalParams