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On 11/5/10 8:05 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Britt Snodgrass:
>
>> The language design decision that Ada be case insensitive is something
>> that I value very much.  In general, I think the "flexibility"
>> provided by case sensitivity causes more problems (risks, bugs,
>> reduced readability) than it potentially solves.
>
> And with case insensitivity, we have a seemingly neverending
> collection of warts, bugs and incompatibilities in the Ada language.

We can choose our case ourselves, as Ada programmers.

Case insensitivity reduces the number of very similar
identifiers by 2.

If I could, I'd go further and make A_Foo mean
the same as AFoo and aFoo and _aFoo.

Does AdaControl have a rule for too similar names?