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-Thread: 103376,e55245590c829bef X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: _Type vs no _Type Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:12:49 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <86wroy58ff.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan> <86pqup5xfy.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan> <86y69d3rec.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan> <82lj5c5ecm.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <82zktq4n9b.fsf_-_@stephe-leake.org> <87eib06yir.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <4cd3e34f$0$6978$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx03.eternal-september.org; posting-host="dFCm8HWntFqmDIilBLqEJQ"; logging-data="14036"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/CagJ1wn4vcEOJgcbgWxJtsEMXt3HaO88=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yMpsTMLyj+7wG0VQwlAEIgsUMzU= sha1:auU/YdxtYDh2+lem7BMdk5EKUtA= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15306 Date: 2010-11-06T00:12:49+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff writes: > "J-P. Rosen" writes: > >> Le 05/11/2010 11:58, Georg Bauhaus a écrit : >> >>> Does AdaControl have a rule for too similar names? >>> >> N**2 comparisons, with pattern matching? Sorry, no ;-) > > I don't see any N**2. Yeah, that would be bad. > > Squeeze out "_". Convert to lower case (or upper case?). > Convert similar-looking characters to the same. > (E.g. "0"(zero) --> "O"(Oh).) Then compare. Lower-case l (ell) and 1 (one)? but if the original was an upper-case L it wouldn't be so bad.