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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title)
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 15:48:12 +0000 (UTC)
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"Sergey Koshcheyev" <serko84@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
> news:slrnbdm1i7.1k5.randhol+abuse@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no...
> > 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

While you will find lots of code that does conform to the "new" Ada95 style,
you will also find loads of guys still using the old Ada83 style. If you
want
to ensure that everyones code is consistent use a pretty-printer and/or peer
reviews (preferable a PP).

No case sensitively please...