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 X-Google-Thread: 103376,87555f9f9a68a23a,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-15 11:44:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!brick.direct.ca!brie.direct.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed From: FGD MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3BCB2FDA.8060807@look.ca> NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:42:10 PDT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.148.70.133 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Organization: Look Communications - http://www.look.ca Subject: Caselessness... User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-Complaints-To: abuse@look.ca X-Trace: brie.direct.ca 1003171330 209.148.70.133 (Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:42:10 PDT) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:50:02 -0400 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14565 Date: 2001-10-15T14:50:02-04:00 List-Id: This is a distant followup to another thread. I don't think Ada's case insensitiveness is a problem, though I wonder... Ada 95 was designed to support characters from many different natural languages. Couldn't there be a "loophole" here, couldn't a disgruntled C programmer define a CaseSensitiveEnglish language wherein upper and lower case analogues are distinguished just like 'e' and '�' are distinguished in French? Frank Dorais