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 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,87555f9f9a68a23a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-15 13:55:54 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: Caselessness... Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 16:41:33 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9qfhlu$7dl$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <3BCB2FDA.8060807@look.ca> <9qfc93$577$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3BCB3E2A.1070001@look.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1003178494 7605 136.170.200.133 (15 Oct 2001 20:41:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Oct 2001 20:41:34 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:14596 Date: 2001-10-15T20:41:34+00:00 List-Id: My best guess would be that it would amount to a representation issue. In the same way that you could, for example, represent the reserved words in an editor with a different language, you could probably represent identifiers in some alternate way. The trick would be that you probably have to go both directions - you have to be able to read the validation suite and compile it, which means your representation issue comes between the viewer and the underlying ASCII character set. So imagine an editor that read the ASCII text and changed the representation for the viewer in some way. Likewise, what the viewer types is translated to some underlying ASCII and compiled. So in a sense, my preprocessor suggestion is kind of an answer - except you'd need something that transformed in both directions so you could properly handle the validation suite. Remember that the validation suite has probably got tests in it to insure that character case doesn't matter, since this is in the standard. 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/ "FGD" wrote in message news:3BCB3E2A.1070001@look.ca... > I think you're still reacting to that other thread which I wanted to > avoid by starting a new thread... > > My question is technical: Is the "loophole" I mentionned possible within > the Ada language specs? (I don't really care if it can be done with a > preprocessor, or even if it is desirable to do so with or without a > preprocessor...) >