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 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: 2003-06-04 09:19:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!tdsnet-transit!newspeer.tds.net!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title) Date: 4 Jun 2003 11:19:14 -0500 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: <20619edc.0306021018.6ee4dd09@posting.google.com> <1054649187.11497@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <20619edc.0306031034.6a2f5f25@posting.google.com> <1054666439.685312@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1054735867.264510@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1054743501 26022 192.135.80.34 (4 Jun 2003 16:18:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 16:18:21 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38614 Date: 2003-06-04T11:19:14-05:00 List-Id: In article <1054735867.264510@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>, Hyman Rosen writes: > Preben Randhol wrote: >> Of course there is reasons for it as have been itterated over and over. > > People are certainly repeating reasons over and over, > nut I haven't seen any that hold water. The one that > seems to appear most often is that a word should mean > the same thing regardless of its case, because that > mimics natural language. That fails on two grounds, > first that in natural language, case does affect > meaning (eg., polish vs. Polish, Ada vs. ADA), and > second that in Ada, one word may be overloaded to > have several meanings. Hyman, I think you win the prize for repeating over and over in this topic :-)