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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8d472879e3f609e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-02 06:24:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!dap-208-40-156-130.nfas.perrysville.sns234.pa.stargate.net!user From: ev_remove_this_ans@evans.pgh.pa.us (Arthur Evans Jr) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title) Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 09:24:31 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: MT-NewsWatcher 2.3.1 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38339 Date: 2003-06-02T09:24:31-04:00 List-Id: 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