Re: Ada Operators in 9x

[pipex!uknet!mucs!m1!bevan@uunet.uu.net (Stephen J Bevan)]

In article <9306261803.aa04612@Paris.ics.uci.edu> kanderso@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU (K
enneth Anderson) writes:
   >   Suppose you _meant_ to write "q := 35;" but instead hit the shift
   >   key accidentally and wrote "Q := 35;"

   >Then you'd be doubly dumb.  Once for declaring "q" and "Q" in the same
   >block and twice for being sloppy about typing.

   You can't really mean the latter.  A person is "dumb" if they make
   a typing mistake?

That's your inference, not my implication.  Do you think it is a good
idea to define "Q" and "q" in the same block?  I think it is
questionable, but I'd allow it a) do deal with "G" and "g" in Physics
and b) for experienced programmers to make their own choice.  However,
once done, the onus is on the programmer to carefully make sure they
don't slip up, hence if they conciously decide to do something
dangerous and then don't take precautions, then yes, I think they are
dumb.