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: dmitry6243@my-deja.com Subject: Re: Case for case-sensitivity (Was: Three simple questions) Date: 2000/10/11 Message-ID: <8s189q$pau$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 680047060 References: <2BED68CA963D6D55.A78776F656DA0452.75A61ED22116F1B6@lp.airnews.net> <39e2588f.21565740@news.demon.co.uk> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x53.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 212.79.192.251 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Oct 11 08:27:42 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDdmitry6243 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) Date: 2000-10-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Frank Christiny wrote: > 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. Once you define "My_List", the type, you cannot > declare "my_List", the object. > > (Weak point. Of course it's weak. I told you, I am not out > to convince anyone about case-sensitivity). > > 2. Case sensitivity standardizes the coding practice of the > internals. Yes! But to make it a real nightmare we must go further. For instance, to develop a language, say, SUmAtrA. The source code will be given in HTML format and all identifiers will be font-color-size-style-sensitive (the first release). In the second release (Service Pack 666a), identifiers will be specified as GIF images. -- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.