From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
To: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org>
Subject: Re: Avatox 1.0: Trouble with encoding in Windows
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:11:00 +0200
Date: 2006-09-15T20:11:02+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <450AECB4.3060000@obry.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lEjOg.187763$1i1.48666@attbi_s72>
Jeffrey R. Carter a écrit :
> I'm sure no one will agree with me, but I don't see the value of
> allowing characters outside 'a' .. 'z' & 'A' .. 'Z' in Ada identifiers.
> Ada is designed to read like English, so in most cases identifiers
> should be in English.
In most cases probably. But for example it is nice to be able to support
Unicode characters as the π (greek pi) in Ada.Numerics. I bet
mathematicians will love to be able to use all sort of greek letters in
their Ada prorams :)
Pascal.
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-11 8:24 Avatox 1.0: Trouble with encoding in Windows Manuel Collado
2006-09-11 10:35 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-11 13:49 ` Avatox 1.1: " Manuel Collado
2006-09-11 16:43 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-11 17:50 ` Björn Persson
2006-09-12 0:06 ` Marc A. Criley
2006-09-12 8:35 ` Manuel Collado
2006-09-13 0:01 ` Avatox 1.0: " Randy Brukardt
2006-09-13 9:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-13 19:28 ` Björn Persson
2006-09-14 6:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-14 23:09 ` Björn Persson
2006-09-14 22:13 ` Björn Persson
2006-09-16 7:40 ` Martin Krischik
2006-09-16 9:43 ` Björn Persson
2006-09-16 9:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-16 11:15 ` Björn Persson
2006-09-17 9:30 ` Martin Krischik
2006-09-13 10:32 ` Manuel Collado
2006-09-13 18:28 ` Björn Persson
2006-09-14 8:11 ` Manuel Collado
2006-09-13 23:05 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-09-13 11:04 ` vgodunko
2006-09-14 8:56 ` Martin Krischik
2006-09-14 21:16 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-14 22:55 ` Björn Persson
2006-09-15 23:15 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-16 7:38 ` Martin Krischik
2006-09-17 19:41 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-15 5:47 ` Martin Krischik
2006-09-15 23:16 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-16 7:31 ` Martin Krischik
2006-09-17 19:43 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-15 9:41 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-15 23:28 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-16 9:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-16 10:31 ` Björn Persson
2006-09-17 19:57 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-18 0:06 ` Björn Persson
2006-09-18 20:14 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-16 5:10 ` Simon Wright
2006-09-15 18:11 ` Pascal Obry [this message]
2006-09-15 18:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-09-15 22:29 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-16 7:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-09-15 23:35 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-15 5:34 ` Simon Wright
2006-09-12 9:52 ` Stephen Leake
2006-09-19 1:16 ` Marc A. Criley
2006-09-19 9:20 ` Stephen Leake
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