Re: Caselessness...

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

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If someone is really convinced that it is a problem, then we'd have another
instance where the language can be "improved" with a preprocessor. Build
something that collects up the identifiers and creates unique IDs for them
and mangles up some case-insensitive names for legal Ada output. I just have
my doubts that this is such a horrendous problem for Ada (I'd consider it an
advantage!) that if only it had been made case sensitive, C/C++/Java
programmers would be flocking to it by the millions.

It might even be marketable for those who want to work with a case-sensitive
version of Ada. It would need only be smart enough to distinguish between
regular Ada files and Case Sensitive Ada(tm). Clearly it is something a lot
of people would prefer. Would they prefer it enough to live with a
non-standard Ada variant & use a preprocessor? (Better they decide what they
are willing to live with than break all the existing Ada code that is out
there! :-)

MDC
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"FGD" <presbeis@look.ca> wrote in message news:3BCB2FDA.8060807@look.ca...
> This is a distant followup to another thread. I don't think Ada's case
> insensitiveness is a problem, though I wonder... Ada 95 was designed to
> support characters from many different natural languages. Couldn't there
> be a "loophole" here, couldn't a disgruntled C programmer define a
> CaseSensitiveEnglish language wherein upper and lower case analogues are
> distinguished just like 'e' and '�' are distinguished in French?
>
> Frank Dorais
>