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From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: sharp � and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:42:50 +0200
Date: 2011-10-12T11:42:50+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <j73neq$61l$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1jwwodd91xfc8$.1xbuqt6j4xh5$.dlg@40tude.net>

Le 12/10/2011 09:43, Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit :
> If Ada wished to introduce some rules of equivalence for Central European
> languages, like ß=ss, ä=ae, ö=oe, and Eastern European languages, like a=а,
> ё=e, and who knows what rules in other languages exist, that would be
> hopeless.
> 
> But without them, the programmer could have *all* Ada keywords as
> identifiers, by replacing appropriate Latin letters with Cyrillic ones.
> 
> Furthermore, identifiers looking perfectly same will be different and there
> is a huge number of homonyms of practically *each* reasonable identifier. I
> see it in breach with basic Ada design.
> 
Too unlikely to care about. If you really fear something fishy in a
program, use AdaControl rule:
   check characters (not_ISO_646);

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-12  9:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-10 16:30 sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-10 16:46 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-10-10 18:23   ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-10 22:25     ` sharp � " Randy Brukardt
2011-10-11  7:36       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-11  7:41         ` sharp ß " Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-11  8:33           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-11 20:32             ` sharp � " Randy Brukardt
2011-10-12  7:43               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-12  9:42                 ` J-P. Rosen [this message]
2011-10-12 12:09                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-12 20:17                 ` sharp " Randy Brukardt
2011-10-12 21:18                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-11 17:33     ` sharp ß " Martin Krischik
2011-10-11 18:54       ` Adam Beneschan
2011-10-12 13:03       ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-12 13:48         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-12 18:24           ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-12 20:06             ` sharp � " Randy Brukardt
2011-10-12 20:48             ` sharp ß " Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-12 22:56               ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like AC CESS Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-13  8:10                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-13 12:13                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-13 13:25                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-13 15:18                       ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-13 19:17                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-11  7:33   ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-11 14:32     ` Adam Beneschan
2011-10-11 17:26   ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS (better not) Martin Krischik
2011-10-12 12:34     ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-10 17:22 ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS Simon Wright
2011-10-10 17:45 ` AdaMagica
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