From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a50a3c40267219cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-15 09:17:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!news.siemens.de!news.mch.sbs.de!not-for-mail From: Alfred Hilscher Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why not combine Ada and C++? Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:17:20 +0200 Organization: Siemens AG Message-ID: <3BCB0C10.636D110E@icn.siemens.de> References: <3105e154.0110150021.32ff5426@posting.google.com> <9qeg5r$266$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <9qesee$s5b$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.21.122.158 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14544 Date: 2001-10-15T18:17:20+02:00 List-Id: 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.