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: 2001-10-16 03:41:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!skynet.be!skynet.be!peer.news.eu-x.com!server2.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The caselessness is one of the things I like best! Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:48:36 +0100 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3BCBF464.E1822E95@brighton.ac.uk> References: <3105e154.0110150021.32ff5426@posting.google.com> <9qeg5r$266$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <9qei6k$3hj$1@newstoo.ericsson.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc2je.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1003227205 22759 193.62.183.154 (16 Oct 2001 10:13:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Oct 2001 10:13:25 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en-gb] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14649 Date: 2001-10-16T10:13:25+00:00 List-Id: Arthur Evans Jr wrote: > OTOH, I don't think it should be the goal of language design to > legislate against such usage -- it can't succeed in doing so. For > example, nothing in Ada's specification legislates against using > OO00OO0O00O00 and OO00O00O00O00 as identifiers, or > lll11l1l1lll1l1ll1 and lll11l1l1l1l1l1ll1, or mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm > and mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I think use of such identifiers is > fully as bad practice as using 'item' and 'Item'. Yes, but as I've said many times before, having to remember whether an identifier is spelt RuntimeException or RunTimeException, or Hashtable vs. HashTable, or HashMap vs. Hashmap, is an unnecessary burden on my memory. And to add insult to injury, all the Java and C++ compilers I know will just barf if you get the case wrong rather than giving a more helpful error message suggesting the possibly correct spelling... ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------