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: 2003-06-02 07:01:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news-lond.gip.net!skynet.be!skynet.be!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!news.cesnet.cz!crax.cesnet.cz!news.felk.cvut.cz!not-for-mail From: "Sergey Koshcheyev" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 15:54:57 +0200 Organization: Czech Technical University Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: r2c113.mistral.cz X-Trace: ns.felk.cvut.cz 1054562097 845 62.245.66.113 (2 Jun 2003 13:54:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ns.felk.cvut.cz NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 13:54:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38345 Date: 2003-06-02T15:54:57+02:00 List-Id: "Preben Randhol" 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.