Re: Caselessness...

[Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>]

Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> This decision was made *for a reason*. Its perfectly legitimate for a beginner
> to wonder why certain desicions were made with the language. However, I don't
> think its at all legitimate for Ada novices to try to come in here and
> repeatedly argue against every single decision the language designers made,
> which is the situation this NG seems to be in now. I really gets to be
> exhausting trying to explain the rationale for things over and over again to
> people who come in here thinking the've single-handedly solved the languages
> "problem", and aren't interested in hearing why things were put the way they
> are.

It would be useful to be able to reference this reason. I have not found
any justification for case insensitivity in the Ada Rationale or the
Ada-83 Rationale. Maybe I missed it. Another possibility is that this
was a requirement imposed on the language design, in which case the
justification would probably be found in Steelman.

-- 
Jeffrey Carter