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: 103376,66bc6b039f1e005d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Three simple questions Date: 2000/10/10 Message-ID: <2+uRxyBadHap@eisner.decus.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 679697504 References: <2BED68CA963D6D55.A78776F656DA0452.75A61ED22116F1B6@lp.airnews.net> <39e2588f.21565740@news.demon.co.uk> <39E2D51E.D0122F20@bton.ac.uk> X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 971181154 216.44.122.34 (Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:32:34 GMT) Organization: LJK Software NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:32:34 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Dale Stanbrough writes: > John English wrote: > >> It gets even more fun with OOP; you think you've got a method called >> DoThisNow and override it, but it's actually called doThisNow; the >> result is two methods, one called doThisNow and the other called >> DoThisNow, which are of course completely unrelated... and the >> compiler will say nothing. > > Of course Ada has exactly the same problem, in that if you misspell > the name of a subprogram when trying to override, you are not > informed by the compiler (e.g. consider Finalize and Finalise). I do not think that is "exactly" the same problem, as spelling is less arbitrary than capitalization.