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: 103376,449b3383afc55069 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) Subject: Case sensitivity [was Re: type names (was Re: Child package: private type and IO)] Date: 1998/03/05 Message-ID: <199803051519.QAA15344@basement.replay.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 331100310 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <34FE0BA7.CD056FB3@ac3i.dseg.ti.com> X-001: Replay may or may not approve of the content of this posting X-002: Report misuse of this automated service to X-URL: http://www.replay.com/remailer/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Replay Associates, L.L.P. Mail-To-News-Contact: postmaster@nym.alias.net Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: <6c2r0l$iic$1@madmax.keyway.net> <6cbuat$cg3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6dcio1$fvo$1@berlin.infomatch.com> <6dhghp$suv$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> On Wed, 04 Mar 1998 18:19:20 -0800, "John G. Volan" wrote: > ... > package and a type, so there are fewer things to name. (2) Other > languages tend to be case-sensitive, so capitalization is available as a > mechanism for "marking". For instance, instead of having to say: > ... Let's see, I've used FORTRAN COBOL APL Pascal BASIC Databus MOBOL-2 Several assemblers C LISP SNOBOL Ada How many of these are case sensitive? One. So my experience is that "other languages" (than Ada) tend not to be case sensitive. Jeff Carter PGP:1024/440FBE21 My real e-mail address: ( carter @ innocon . com ) "You brightly-colored, mealy-templed, cranberry-smelling, electric donkey-bottom biters." Monty Python & the Holy Grail Posted with Spam Hater - see http://www.compulink.co.uk/~net-services/spam/