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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Suffix _T for types found good
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:27:28 -0700 (PDT)
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On Aug 7, 10:01 am, Ray Blaak <rAYbl...@STRIPCAPStelus.net> wrote:

> Before I get blasted about the evils of case insensitivity, I should point out
> that Java is a unicode language, allows unicode in its identifiers, and case
> folding is not sensical in the general case for unicode characters. With Ada
> being essentially an ASCII language, the case folding debate has merit.

First of all, Java (like C and Unix) is case-sensitive, not case-
insensitive.  Ada is case-insensitive.  You have the two backwards.

Second, Ada (starting with Ada 2005) does allow ISO 10646 (Unicode)
characters in its identifiers, and it defines how it handles its case
insensitivity for identifiers, which I think involves the "Uppercase
Mapping" defined by ISO 10646:2003.  So case folding does make sense
for programming languages that allow Unicode characters in
identifiers, including Ada.

                                -- Adam