From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on
	ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 93 14:14:34 -0400
From: munck@STARS.Reston.Paramax.COM
Subject: Re: Ada Operators in 9x
Message-ID: <2849.741636874@blackbird>
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

In INFO-ADA Digest V93 #418, seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net
(Michael Feldman) said:

> Suppose you _meant_ to write
>
>  q := 35;
>
>but instead hit the shift key accidentally and wrote
>
>  Q := 35;
>

Not terribly convincing.  Suppose you _meant_ to write

  q := 35;

but instead hit the z key accidentally and wrote

  zq := 35;

and happened to have a declaration for zq as well as q, just as
your example had Q and q.  Both are single-keystroke errors.


In fact, in my ideal, high-LOC-productivity environment, I would
rarely be typing names in any case.  Instead I would be mouse-clicking
on the name in earlier code or in a data-structure diagram in the next
window, while chording in reserved words, operators, and literals with
my left hand.  (Yes, I was tremendously influenced by one of the Great
Men of Computing as a youth.)

What I really want is a non-printing alphanumeric character --
something that looks like a space to the eye and an alphanumeric to
the parser.  After all, one rarely refer's to one's pet in writing as
the brown_and_white_cat or BrownAndWhiteCat.  It seems unlikely that
I'll get this in 9X.

Bob Munck