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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Enum'Image (Was: Improving Ada's image)
Date: 23 Jun 2004 11:15:32 -0600
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In article <mailman.145.1088005291.391.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>, "Alexander E. Kopilovich" <aek@VB1162.spb.edu> writes:

>> >   Enum'Image(My_Variable, Verbatim)

> But even the possibility of Verbatim seems somehow doubtful because it will
> slightly violate the rule of case insensitivity for names in Ada programs.
> That is, with this Verbatim option the behaviour of a program can depend on
> the case of the letters used inside the names in enums. One can argue that
> those names in enums resemble literals and therefore the case insensitivity
> rule should not be applied to them, but this is a problematic issue, I think.

I was under the impression that the only situations where people cared
about cases of enumerals were when it was converted to a string.  This
does not seem a departure from:

	IF "ABC" = "abc"
	THEN
		NULL; -- never gets here
	ENDIF;