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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: Case for case-sensitivity (Was: Three simple questions)
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In article <G2FuBE.J9K@news.boeing.com>,
  nickerson@pundit.ds.boeing.com () wrote:
> meaningful names aside, how clever would it be to use as my
variables
> the 5 character, all {a,A}; that gives me 2**5=32 choices
which is
> plenty for local variables {aaaaa,aaaaA,aaaAa,aaaAA, ...,
AAAAA};
> horrid cleverness perhaps for a person and trivial for the
machine;


Reminds me of a code obfuscator I once saw for COBOL that
replaced all variable names with 30 character strings consisting
entirely of O's and 0's (letter oh and digit zero).

Of course you can still do *that* in Ada which is a reminder
that if you are determined to obfuscate, then the language
cannot stop you, so the argument with a's and A's above is
a little bit bogus :-)



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