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: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: Three simple questions Date: 2000/10/16 Message-ID: <8sfhq4$shn$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 682154482 References: <2BED68CA963D6D55.A78776F656DA0452.75A61ED22116F1B6@lp.airnews.net> <39e2588f.21565740@news.demon.co.uk> <39E2D51E.D0122F20@bton.ac.uk> <8s0b78$2no$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8s8jmo$qt0$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39EB0761.4204C9ED@planet8.tds-eagan.lmco.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x54.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Oct 16 18:35:49 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 2000-10-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <39EB0761.4204C9ED@planet8.tds-eagan.lmco.com>, James Hassett wrote: > I have the impression that some people are much more sensitive > to case differences than other people Actually my general experience is that a) most people agree it is a bad thing to have two identifiers differing only by case in the same place. b) even when languages do allow case insensitivity it is a bad idea to take advantage of this and spell the same identifier in different ways in different places. My preference therefore is a language environment where there is case sensitivity, but you cannot have two identifiers differing only in casing. Note that GNAT gives you this if you specify -gnatynr (I find this a very valuable style check) Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.