Re: Factory Pattern

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.tsoh+bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>]

On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 23:44 -0700, Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> On 26 Lip, 02:51, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
> <spam.jrcarter....@acm.nospam.org> wrote:
> 
> > I would think that an enumeration type would be better than Integer for
> > selecting among a few choices. Using Integer probably reflects C/++
> > thinking.
> 
> No. C and C++ have enumerations.
> 
> > Like all well designed languages, Ada is not case sensitive.
> 
> Careful. It is a question of interpretation of any given character set
> and it can be different with different tools, and there are many.

Many case sensitive tools seem to be inspired by the case sensitive 7bit
tools, and the case sensitive programmers, used in creating them.


> In addition, being case-insensitive and at the same time allowing full
> Unicode in identifiers is kind of schisophreny.

Why is being case-insensitive and allowing full Unicode
in identifiers schizophrenic?