From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,808505c9db7d5613 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Looking for good Ada95 book Date: 1996/11/20 Message-ID: <1996Nov20.103452.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 197664380 x-nntp-posting-host: eisner.decus.org references: <32723F6A.54A3@dtek.chalmers.se> <56b275$6k4@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <56uqhq$5tf@saturn.brighton.ac.uk> x-nntp-posting-user: KILGALLEN x-trace: 848504096/23217 organization: LJK Software newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <56uqhq$5tf@saturn.brighton.ac.uk>, je@bton.ac.uk (John English) writes: > OK, here's another contrary view to keep the pot boiling. > If you use all-caps, procedure HELLO_WORLD might be mistyped > near-invisibly as procedure HELL0_W0RLD which would give rise > to some very puzzling (to a beginner) errors. However, procedure > Hello_World and procedure Hell0_W0rld are visibly distinct... > (Oh well, I suppose I ought to make the counter-argument for > fairness' sake: procedure HELLO is easy to distinguish from > procedure HE110... :-) Both of those possibilities make me prefer languages which do not declare variables behind my back in response to a reference... ...and of course prefer compilers which provide more than a binary indication regarding whether errors were found in my program :-) Larry Kilgallen