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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Factory Pattern
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:58:57 -0700
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On Jul 26, 2:53 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:40:43 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> > Why is being case-insensitive and allowing full Unicode
> > in identifiers schizophrenic?
>
> Because the concept of "case" does not apply to all scripts. I presume that
> hieroglyphic scripts might possess quite outlandish ideas about arts of
> glyphs composition and the equivalence of the results obtained.

I agree, that's an area where C++ beats Ada.  Ada programmers who wish
to use hieroglyphics in identifiers could run into trouble figuring
out where case-equivalence applies, while C++ programs tend to look
like hieroglyphics anyway so there would be a lot less adjustment.

                      -- Adam