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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8d472879e3f609e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-03 19:05:45 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title) From: James Rogers References: <0vGdnQFmVPoZj0Gj4p2dnA@gbronline.com> <1054647054.761122@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1054651042.211055@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 02:05:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.86.32.250 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1054692344 12.86.32.250 (Wed, 04 Jun 2003 02:05:44 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 02:05:44 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38564 Date: 2003-06-04T02:05:44+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote in news:1054651042.211055@master.nyc.kbcfp.com: > Preben Randhol wrote: >> It is far easier to rather better to use different > > words than to simply change the case. > > The point remains that I may want to use the same word > in different cases to mean different things. The C > example of upper case as the type and lower case as the > object is an example. Ada says I can't do that. Why? > Because having one English word mean two different things > is confusing? But Ada already allows that. So it's an > arbitrary decision made by people who don't like case > sensitivity forcing their view on those who do. In English the meaning of words does not change because of case. Look at the poetry of e.e.milne (his spelling, not mine). English does have capitalization conventions, but none of those conventions change the meaning of a word. In this sense English is case insensitive. Is the meaining of the word "is" different when the first letter is upper case? Jim Rogers