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From: Arthur Schwarz <schwarza@gdls.com>
Subject: Re: Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign
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Date: 1997/05/17
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> iBen wrote, with smileys
> 
> <<Here's a modest proposal for Ada 0Y that will solve this problem: allow

> England in the forest (I forgot the name :-)

Had to be 'Sherwood' - robbing from the poor and giving to the rich :-)

> 
> But on the final vote, the French delegation in particular made a major
> issue of opposing this, and insisted on its deletion, so it was deleted.
> They felt it encouraged bad identifiers such as A__________________B,
> which is horrible, indeed, though not much worse than OOOOOOOOOOOOO0000OOOO


The contention that underscores undermine any naming characterization
is ludicrous. As you pointed out above, it is just as possible to
generate ridiculous names using existing conventions. So what was
really sticking in the craw of the French?

art