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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: _Type vs no _Type
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:28:28 -0700
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On 11/3/2010 2:29 PM, Simon Wright wrote:
> Stephen Leake<stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>  writes:
>
>> package RPG is
>>
>>     type Weapon is (Broadsword, Catapult, Torpedo);
>>     procedure Attack (Weapon : RPG.Weapon);
>>
>> end RPG;
>
> Neat. Certainly worth bearing in mind.

Sorry to jump in, I have not read everything in this thread, so may be 
this was mentioned already.

Isn't this whole subject a result of Ada being case insensitive?

If Ada has been case sensitive, then one would write

weapon : Weapon;

and be done with it?

That is one part of Ada I never liked, same for Fortran or any other 
language which is not case sensitive.

But nothing can be done about it, I know.

--Nasser