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On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:42:50 +0200, J-P. Rosen wrote:

> Le 12/10/2011 09:43, Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit :
>> If Ada wished to introduce some rules of equivalence for Central European
>> languages, like ß=ss, ä=ae, ö=oe, and Eastern European languages, like a=а,
>> ё=e, and who knows what rules in other languages exist, that would be
>> hopeless.
>> 
>> But without them, the programmer could have *all* Ada keywords as
>> identifiers, by replacing appropriate Latin letters with Cyrillic ones.
>> 
>> Furthermore, identifiers looking perfectly same will be different and there
>> is a huge number of homonyms of practically *each* reasonable identifier. I
>> see it in breach with basic Ada design.
>> 
> Too unlikely to care about.

It is not unlikely that somebody would like name something "Intеrface",
which I presume is a valid identifier in Ada 2012.

> If you really fear something fishy in a
> program, use AdaControl rule:
>   check characters (not_ISO_646);

Or use lint for C programs? No tool can be a replacement for a language
problem. Tools,are indicators of language problems.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de