From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Some questions about Ada.
Date: 1996/05/05
Date: 1996-05-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.831295763@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4mi2fh$sae@news.nyu.edu
Richard Kenner said
"Not necessarily. The existance of the convention allows you to
"pronounce" the case difference by using the meaning of the
capitalization in the convention."
That only helps if both people are following the same convention. Since
there are no standards for these conventions, that is unlikely. Maybe I
am unusual, but I have participated/overheard conversations a zillion
times that go like:
type in command bla bla
I did, it said unrecognized command
Oh sorry, the M is upper case
...
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-05-02 0:00 Some questions about Ada Carl Laurence Gonsalves
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Dave Jones
1996-05-03 0:00 ` Spencer Allain
1996-05-03 0:00 ` Darren C Davenport
1996-05-03 0:00 ` Carl Laurence Gonsalves
1996-05-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-03 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-05-03 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-05-04 0:00 ` Carl Laurence Gonsalves
1996-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-04 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-05 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-05-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-05-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-05 0:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1996-05-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-05-06 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-05-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-12 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Christopher J. Henrich
1996-05-04 0:00 ` Kevin D. Heatwole
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-03 0:00 ` Dave Jones
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Matthew M. Lih
1996-05-09 0:00 ` Dave Jones
1996-05-03 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-05-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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