Re: Ada generics

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:04:24 +0100, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 14:00 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
>>> Should there be a ruling about Finalisation versus
>>> Finalization?
>> 
>> No, and for exactly same reason why there should also be no ruling that ss
>> = �.
> 
> Should we deny problem domain facts just so that we have very
> simple rules for parsers? Where German is written, there is a
> simple rule: For writing "�" in upper case, use "SS".

This is not a domain of the programming language, but one of the natural
language. Somebody was too lazy to write 'sz' and invented a digraph '�'.
Others in other natural languages might come (and did) to even more crazy
ideas like "don't" = "do not". Why should that bother us?

> That's not too hard a challenge to computer science in my view,
> but I'll leave that to psychologists to answer when it comes
> to the views of actual computer scientists. :-)

Simplicity of implementation does not justify doing wrong things! (:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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