Re: Syntactically correct spanish identifiers (Was: config files proposal)

[antonio_duran@hotmail.com (Antonio Duran)]

dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote in message news:<5ee5b646.0206051749.558ed3fb@posting.google.com>...
> Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk> wrote in message news:<3CFE62B5.BEC2ED6B@nbi.dk>...
> > Antonio Duran wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm from Spain and I usually write in Spanish
> > > but when programming in Ada I must adhere to the Ada syntax, I can't
> > > write Ada identifiers that are syntactically correct spanish words
> > 
> > Are you sure? I am almost certain that ISO-8859-1 is
> > intended for writing Spanish. It is also the character
> > encoding used for Ada source code.
> 
> yes, of course, the default interpretation of type Character is Latin-1 which
> includes all necessary characters for writing Spanish, and this is also the
> default interpretation of program sources, so identifiers can be written in
> Spanish with proper upper/lower case equivalences.
> 
> What would be interesting is to know is what you (Antonio) read that made
> you think otherwise???

You are right, it is syntactically correct in Ada 95 to write
identifiers using acute vowels. I don't pretend to excuse myself but I
made the transition from Ada 83 to 95 and I skipped the first two
chapters of the LRM.

By the way, what I read, for general syntax subjects is the ANSI/MIL
STD 1815 from "Ada Compilers and Bibliography" (Cambridge University
Press).

I feel sorry for open an issue that only shows my ignorance. Next time
I will think before write. Thank you,
    
     Antonio Duran