Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title)

[ev_remove_this_ans@evans.pgh.pa.us (Arthur Evans Jr)]

I think case sensitivity is a great idea.

However, I (and a few others) fought this fight over 20 years ago
in DR meetings, and lost. Ada-83 didn't have case sensitivity, and
there's no way any revision of Ada will ever add it to the
language. No such a non-upward-compatible change will be made.

But, you say, all possible errors introduced into a program by this
change will be caught by the cpmpiler and can then be easily fixed.
It's true that the errors will be caught, but irrelevant. Fixing
these errors might be reasonable in a small program, say a few tens
of thousands of lines. But it just isn't practical in the really
big programs that Ada was designed for -- many tens of millions of
lines written at multiple locations.

Have this discussion on comp.lang.ada if you want to -- it's fun.
But don't expect anything said in this thread to influence the
design of Ada 200Y.

Art Evans