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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title)
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In article <eisner.encompasserve.org comp.lang.ada:101490>, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> How does case sensitivity increase bugs? In a case
> sensitive language, if you use one case and the
> name was declared with a different case, your code
> will not compile. If two names differ only in case,
> and, say, one names a type and the other an object,
> the code will again fail to compile if you switch
> them.

But if they do _not_ have that difference, the code might compile.

    declare
        Index : integer := 27;
    begin
        for index in my_array'range loop
            if my_array ( Index ) > current_maximum
            then
                current_maximum := my_array ( index );
                Index := index;
            end if;
        end loop;
    end;