Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title)

["Sergey Koshcheyev" <serko84@hotmail.com>]

"Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
news:slrnbdmifm.532.randhol+abuse@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no...
> Preben Randhol wrote:
> > Sergey Koshcheyev wrote:
> >> Yes, the switch is fine, but it still doesn't let me name a function
> >> parameter "At", for example.
> >
> > Why shouldn't you?
>
> Opps sorry misread what you said. Ok then it is the rules of ACT that
> prohibits this. But it doesn't matter which case it is. I always write

No, it's because "At" is a reserved word. Also reserved are "Of", "In",
"Range", "Use", all of them being quite common.

> Put_Line New_Line etc.. because to *me* this is more reable, but I don't
> want to force this on others. Beside if there is a New_Line and a
> new_line which should I choose?

I don't understand the question. New_Line, of course :-)

I don't want complete freedom and anarchy, but just to be able to use
capitalized identifiers which collide with reserved words, and are thus
unusable.

What about some form of "case preservance"? So that you wouldn't be allowed
to have identifiers which differ only in case (except for those colliding
with keywords), but once you have an identifier named aBc, you have to spell
it the same way everywhere?

All of these ideas don't have anything to do with Ada200X or Y, of course -
I don't really want to propose changing a language which thousands of people
will use daily, when I myself don't have much programming experience.

Sergey.