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From: "Sergey Koshcheyev" <serko84@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title)
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 13:56:57 +0200
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"Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
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> Why should the language care how you type it?

For consistency.

> If you use Gnat you will notice it has a switch which does this for you.
If you use Emacs it also will.

Yes, the switch is fine, but it still doesn't let me name a function
parameter "At", for example.

> will. The problem is when you introduce errors in you program due to
> wrong cases that is more severe.

How can I introduce an error due to wrong case, having strong type checking
and all the other safeguards?

Besides, do you really use all the freedom that case insensitivity gives
you? Do you type Text_IO differently every time you need to name it? I
myself much prefer consistent naming. The compiler could also warn me about
names not following conventions, but still let me use reserved words as
identifiers (and Ada currently prohibits using many common English words).

By the way, I know about Java and Hashtable vs HashMap, but in Ada it could
be just the same, with Hashtable and Hash_Map. I don't view it as an
argument against case sensitivity.

Sergey.