From: David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu>
Subject: Re: Caselessness...
Date: 15 Oct 2001 20:15:41 GMT
Date: 2001-10-15T20:15:41+00:00 [thread overview]
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On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:50:02 -0400, FGD <presbeis@look.ca> wrote:
> 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?
Huh? How would he define this hypothetical thing?
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-15 18:50 Caselessness FGD
2001-10-15 19:09 ` Caselessness Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 19:51 ` Caselessness FGD
2001-10-15 20:41 ` Caselessness Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 20:15 ` David Starner [this message]
2001-10-15 20:16 ` Caselessness Ted Dennison
2001-10-15 23:19 ` Caselessness Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-16 0:10 ` Caselessness Al Christians
2001-10-16 11:10 ` Caselessness Peter Hend�n
2001-10-16 15:59 ` Caselessness Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-16 18:44 ` Caselessness Al Christians
2001-10-17 4:56 ` Caselessness David Brown
2001-10-17 5:13 ` Caselessness David Starner
2001-10-17 14:41 ` Caselessness Ted Dennison
2001-10-17 15:48 ` Caselessness Philip Anderson
2001-10-17 16:55 ` Caselessness Ted Dennison
2001-10-17 18:23 ` Caselessness Darren New
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