Re: casecrash: language lawyers: C'mon!

["Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@nospam.baesystems.com>]

I think what the original poster is getting at is that it
would seem perfectly obvious that the case statement is
referring to the data object called 'H' rather than the
enumerate 'H', so why can't the language be defined to
spot this case?


John R. Strohm <strohm@airmail.net> wrote in message
news:AF90BB90E03E608D.447DE4CBCE9D9148.37FD9A43DA8A1090@lp.airnews.net...
> Without digging out my long-buried LRM, I seem to recall that Ada is NOT,
I
> say again NOT, case-sensitive.
>
> That being the case,
>
>     H : Header;
>
> hides the enumeration literal H where you defined record_type, and your
> "when H =>" clause tried to resolve against the instance of Header, which
is
> obviously bogus.
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