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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8d472879e3f609e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-04 14:45:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title) Date: 4 Jun 2003 14:45:47 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <20619edc.0306041345.74a1ff20@posting.google.com> References: <20619edc.0306021018.6ee4dd09@posting.google.com> <1054649187.11497@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <20619edc.0306031034.6a2f5f25@posting.google.com> <1054666439.685312@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1054735867.264510@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 154.6.152.68 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1054763147 7342 127.0.0.1 (4 Jun 2003 21:45:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Jun 2003 21:45:47 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38645 Date: 2003-06-04T21:45:47+00:00 List-Id: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:... > In article <1054735867.264510@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>, Hyman Rosen writes: > > Preben Randhol wrote: > >> Of course there is reasons for it as have been itterated over and over. > > > > People are certainly repeating reasons over and over, > > nut I haven't seen any that hold water. The one that > > seems to appear most often is that a word should mean > > the same thing regardless of its case, because that > > mimics natural language. That fails on two grounds, > > first that in natural language, case does affect > > meaning (eg., polish vs. Polish, Ada vs. ADA), and > > second that in Ada, one word may be overloaded to > > have several meanings. > > Hyman, I think you win the prize for repeating over and over in this topic :-) Or did you mean over and Over and ovEr and oVeR and... :-)