Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title)

[Wesley Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com>]

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> And *my* point is that while it may be a bad idea,
> Ada already allows it in the case of function
> overloading, including enumerators.

(FILE *file)

in my opinion is the _only_ reasonable use of
case sensitivity in a program.

In subprogram overloading, if the two same-named
functions do not do similar things, then it's probably
very poor design.

In enumerations, it doesn't happen very often,
but when it does, avoiding the disadvantage of
having to give something an illogical name to
avoid a collision is probably worth the need
to occasionally qualify it for the compiler.

The human reader has a greater talent at intuiting
meaning from context than the compiler, so confusion
is unlikely.

In the case of FILE *file; there is also no confusion,
but this is a style issue NOT enforced by the compiler.

Since I type more English than Ada or C, my mind is not
very talented at remembering that Position is not position,
and when a compiler "does me a favor" (as so many of them
do) by assuming the undeclared item is a function returning
int, .....