Re: Some questions about Ada.

[kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)]

In article <dewar.831213757@schonberg> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>However, I think that having case sensitivity in languages is a very
>bad idea. For one thing it makes it  very difficult to talk verbally about
>programs, and if people really start defining identifiers like
>Time_of_Day and Time_OF_Day to mean different things, then it damages
>readability badly.

A counterexample to that, with which I mostly agree, are some C coding
conventions where the kind of thing is determined by the casing of the
first letter.  I've seen this sort of thing in the sources of some CAD
systems.  For example:

typedef struct wire {...} Wire;
typedef struct signal {...} Signal;

I've also seen this done with macros that call functions vs the function
they, internal and external versions of a function, etc.

I think this can be a very useful convention if it is followed
uniformly.  I can't offhand think of an Ada analog for such a
convention, though.