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=2.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-27 20:13:01 PST Path: news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-09!supernews.com!68.6.19.232.MISMATCH!west.cox.net!east.cox.net!peer02.cox.net!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!feed2.news.rcn.net!feed1.news.rcn.net!rcn!not-for-mail From: "Frank J. Lhota" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? [although this thread changed to something else a long time ago] Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 23:12:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <3F7024F8.1000102@crs4.it> <3F71A78A.5000701@crs4.it> Reply-To: "Frank J. Lhota" X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVZ3cf1OVF4Zg3QMtYmVAsjZE+kuqZ4whXe3xVHW8r4EWxKO04yJLSCV X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Sep 2003 03:12:07 GMT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Priority: 3 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:59 Date: 2003-09-28T03:12:07+00:00 List-Id: "Randy Brukardt" wrote in message news:vnc4gs4llm53a3@corp.supernews.com... > I totally argee, but you have to be an idiot to declare variables that are > one character apart. And without that, the program has an error and probably > is relatively easy to find. But even if you make your identifiers quite distinct, the expressions "Foo(1)" and "Foo(2)" differ by only one character.