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=0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,a50a3c40267219cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-15 08:26:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The caselessness is one of the things I like best! Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:13:24 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9qeuel$t2c$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <3105e154.0110150021.32ff5426@posting.google.com> <9qeg5r$266$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <9qei6k$3hj$1@newstoo.ericsson.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1003158805 29772 136.170.200.133 (15 Oct 2001 15:13:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Oct 2001 15:13:25 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14538 Date: 2001-10-15T15:13:25+00:00 List-Id: Many (including myself) would argue it is NOT stupid, but rather a safety feature. I don't think that decision was made to save space or support wierd character sets. This debate will never be settled and no matter which decision the designers made, someone would have been unhappy with it. I believe they opted for reliability, eliminating one common source of errors at the expense of ticking-off a bunch of C users. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Gerhard H�ring" wrote in message news:slrn9sle58.gs.gerhard.nospam@lilith.hqd-internal... > > True. The compiler probably should show a warning in this case. But > Ada's case insensitivity is so stupid it hurts. Don't tell me it's > needed for your weird 7 bit processor with EBDIC (sp?) character set. > Cross-compile if you need to support such broken processors. > > I want inconsistent casing to be a syntax error in a language. Oh yes. > And the keywords be either lower or upper case, too (I'd prefer upper > case as in MODULA-2/3).