From: Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de>
Subject: Re: Why not combine Ada and C++?
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:17:20 +0200
Date: 2001-10-15T18:17:20+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BCB0C10.636D110E@icn.siemens.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9qesee$s5b$1@nh.pace.co.uk
Marin David Condic wrote:
>
> Case sensitivity is one of those debates that is never going to be settled
> simply because people have their own irrational preferences and there are
> plusses and minuses on either side to justify them.
Yes.
> Personally, I like case insensitivity since the meaning of a word is not
> (generally) changed by the character case in which it is represented. Hence,
> to introduce case sensitivity would be to make it far easier to make stupid
> errors in coding or in reading of code. Something like "This_Object" versus
> "This_object" could far too easily be tripped over in code. (Fortunately,
> the compiler would complain if one tried to declare two such objects in the
> same scope, but with case sensitivity, someone could easily get away with
> it.)
Is it different to the problems you can get with (for example)
"Caselessness" and "Caseless_ness" ?
I think every programmer should have the possibility to do his work in
his own way.
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Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-15 8:21 Why not combine Ada and C++? Mike Meng
2001-10-15 10:29 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-15 10:36 ` Robert*
2001-10-15 11:15 ` Stephen Cole
2001-10-15 12:06 ` The caselessness is one of the things I like best! Petter Fryklund
2001-10-15 12:21 ` Gerhard Häring
2001-10-15 12:48 ` UPPERCASE is the typgraphical equivalent of shouting ;-) Petter Fryklund
2001-10-15 12:54 ` The caselessness is one of the things I like best! James Rogers
2001-10-15 13:11 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-15 15:12 ` Arthur Evans Jr
2001-10-15 16:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-18 19:48 ` Simon Wright
2001-10-18 23:35 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-16 8:48 ` John English
2001-10-16 13:11 ` James Rogers
2001-10-16 18:10 ` tmoran
2001-10-17 8:53 ` Philip Anderson
2001-10-17 10:57 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-19 14:52 ` john mann
2001-10-15 15:13 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 17:00 ` tmoran
2001-10-15 17:29 ` Gerhard Häring
2001-10-15 17:38 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-15 18:01 ` Gerhard Häring
2001-10-15 19:04 ` David Starner
2001-10-15 18:15 ` David Starner
2001-10-15 17:35 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 18:18 ` Pascal Obry
2001-10-15 18:57 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 22:46 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-16 13:32 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-22 2:10 ` David Thompson
2001-10-15 13:03 ` Alfred Hilscher
2001-10-22 20:27 ` Kenneth Almquist
2001-10-15 14:39 ` Why not combine Ada and C++? Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 16:17 ` Alfred Hilscher [this message]
2001-10-15 16:35 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 20:15 ` Robert*
2001-10-15 21:27 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 22:50 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-18 19:53 ` Simon Wright
2001-10-21 5:54 ` AG
2001-10-24 14:48 ` A UNISYS story Petter Fryklund
2001-10-24 15:03 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-25 7:37 ` Petter Fryklund
2001-10-15 17:41 ` Why not combine Ada and C++? Stephen Cole
2001-10-15 18:27 ` tmoran
2001-10-15 20:24 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-15 20:03 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-15 18:42 ` Modern languages are case sensitive? Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-15 19:20 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-15 22:54 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-16 11:21 ` Dmitry Kazakov
2001-10-16 11:42 ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-16 13:16 ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-10-16 23:43 ` David Botton
2001-10-17 1:42 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-16 14:36 ` Arthur Evans Jr
2001-10-16 14:50 ` Chris Morgan
2001-10-16 15:18 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-16 15:47 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-16 16:48 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-16 17:12 ` David Starner
2001-10-16 20:32 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-16 21:37 ` David Starner
2001-10-17 8:39 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-18 0:00 ` Will
2001-10-18 2:12 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-18 2:32 ` Darren New
2001-10-18 11:32 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-15 19:47 ` Why not combine Ada and C++? Wes Groleau
2001-10-23 5:39 ` Hyman Rosen
2001-10-23 6:11 ` Richard Riehle
2001-10-15 19:28 ` Baugereau
2001-10-15 20:05 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-16 7:38 ` Martin Dowie
2001-10-16 11:44 ` Pascal Obry
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2001-10-15 20:02 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-15 20:55 ` Adrian Knoth
2001-10-15 22:15 ` Eric Merritt
2001-10-15 22:42 ` tmoran
[not found] ` <01c15665$dc2e6c00$9b29e8d4@akzvbymr>
2001-10-16 17:48 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-16 18:04 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-16 23:01 ` tmoran
2001-10-16 18:51 ` Marin David Condic
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2001-10-23 22:03 Beard, Frank
2001-10-23 23:13 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-24 0:02 Beard, Frank
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