Re: Ada Operators in 9x

[ghost.dsi.unimi.it!univ-lyon1.fr!scsing.switch.ch!epflnews!disuns2.epfl.c h!lglsun!nebbe@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Robb Nebbe)]

In article <BEVAN.93Jun26164332@panda.cs.man.ac.uk>, bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephe
n J Bevan) writes:
: In article <20fp75INNk3l@umbc4.umbc.edu> berman@umbc.edu (Mike Berman) writes
:
: 
:    ... but the idea is that our memory seems more closely tied to what
:    we hear and verbalize, not what we see ...
: 
: Sounds rather contentious to me.

Actually it would probably be better stated that if we can see an
identifier _and_ pronounce it then it will be easier to remember. This
is hardly contentious; it is a standard memory technic.

In languages with a hierarchical name space case sensitivity is much
less useful (IMHO) than in a language with a flat name space. If a
language also has a preprocessor on top of a flat name space then case
sensitivity becomes almost necessary.

In Ada (which has a hierarchical name space and no preprocessor) case
sensitivity really doesn't make a big difference one way or the other.
Any examples where it matters one way or the other are almost certain
to be contrived.

I feel that Ada made the right choice (for Ada) in making case
irrelevant since in my experience this tends to improve
maintainability.

Robb