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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title)
Date: 3 Jun 2003 06:37:27 -0500
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In article <ZXTCa.1089424$F1.129227@sccrnsc04>, "Steve" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com> writes:

> IMHO, case sensitivity does not ensure consistency of names.  It permits you
> to have Text_IO, Text_Io, text_io and TEXT_IO in the same program, that all
> do different things (Yuk!).  Having seen this sort of thing in some C code,
> I think it's a very bad thing and does do harm.

You omitted 60 other possible capitalizations.

I suppose one could write a C program with all variables named "variable"
but with various capitalizations.  _That_ should answer those people who
claim Ada can do anything C can do.