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From: "Sergey Koshcheyev" <serko84@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title)
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:41:25 +0200
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"Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
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> Case SenSitIvitY is a bAD ThiNg IMHO. It reduces readability as you need
> to be sure you spelt it correctly according to the definition. One could
> in fact have a GetString and getstring and Getstring and
> getString procedure.

IMHO, case sensitivity would help ensure consistency of names, so you don't
have Text_IO, Text_Io, text_io and TEXT_IO in the same program, and would
also enable using common words like In, Out, For, At for identifiers. Things
like GetString vs. getstring and others are better handled by using some
coding standard and naming convention, in my opinion. Given that it's
standard in Ada to use Identifiers_Like_This, I think case sensitivity
wouldn't do any harm.

And I agree with the rest of your post.

Sergey.