Re: Why not combine Ada and C++?

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Nothing in Ada stops you from using Upper and Lower case characters in
identifiers, reserved words, etc. Whatever style you like is just fine.
(*pretend* that its case sensitive if you like :-) Its just that character
case won't have any impact on meaning. If you're depending on character case
having an impact on meaning, then this is inherently risky. It means you
want to be able to use identifiers like This_Object and This_object in the
same scope and have them mean different things. Or have "begin" and "Begin"
with one being the reserved word and one being some other identifier. (risky
and confusing in my mind...) If you say "No, I'd never want to have two
identifiers distinguished only by character case", then what's the problem?
Type them in any case you like.

To make the language case sensitive would be, in some ways, a restriction on
every programmer to do it some specific way. If, for example, you like your
reserved words to be in UPPER CASE, you wouldn't be able to do so if they
were mandated to be in lower case. As it is now, you can do it any way that
suits your personal style.

MDC
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"Alfred Hilscher" <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de> wrote in message
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> I think every programmer should have the possibility to do his work in
> his own way.