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, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,66bc6b039f1e005d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mjsilva@my-deja.com Subject: Re: Case for case-sensitivity (Was: Three simple questions) Date: 2000/10/10 Message-ID: <8s01hu$qms$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 679881481 References: <2BED68CA963D6D55.A78776F656DA0452.75A61ED22116F1B6@lp.airnews.net> <39e2588f.21565740@news.demon.co.uk> X-Http-Proxy: 1.1 x61.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 206.169.137.75 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Oct 10 21:26:31 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDmjsilva Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) Date: 2000-10-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Frank Christiny wrote: > As for the computer languages, consider this: > > 1. Case sensitivity allows for a greater array of variable naming > and semantics. In case-insensitive languages you cannot reuse a > chunk of the english vocabulary because it has already been > "privatized". Not only can you not use "while", but "While", or > "WHILE", etc. Surely this is not a serious burden! When I use C I would never think to use different-case reserved words for variables. > Once you define "My_List", the type, you cannot > declare "my_List", the object. I developed this habit in C, but now I realize I mostly did it from laziness. In your example My_List is a type while my_List is an instance of that type being used for a specific purpose. With a little thought "my_List" can no doubt be given a more helpful name such as "Input_list" or Student_list"; something that better indicates the function of this particular My_List. Mike Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.