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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,411186037d1bc912 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan) Subject: Re: Some questions about Ada. Date: 1996/05/03 Message-ID: <4me37a$ipl@krusty.irvine.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 152892801 references: <3188F63D.3325@io.com> organization: /z/news/newsctl/organization newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: clgonsal@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Carl Laurence Gonsalves) writes: > >I'v also had to maintain Pascal programs where "end" was capitalized in >three different ways, at random. Case insensitivity makes the code harder >to read and harder to maintain, because one can be misled into thinking >that two different capitalizations of the same thing are distinct. . . . I don't understand this at all. As far as I can see, about the only way you can be misled into thinking two different capitalizations mean different things is if you're used to programming only in C/C++ (or Modula). Expecting different capitalizations to mean different things doesn't come from experience with most other well-known programming languages, since they don't care about case. And it certainly can't come from any of our other learning; if I see a word capitalized at the beginning of a sentence, I am not misled into thinking its meaning is different from an entirely lower-case word. -- Adam