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,a50a3c40267219cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-15 10:00:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!netnews.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The caselessness is one of the things I like best! References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 17:00:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.82.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 1003165203 24.7.82.199 (Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:00:03 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:00:03 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14548 Date: 2001-10-15T17:00:03+00:00 List-Id: > > If the only difference between two entities is the case, I think the > > program will be very hard to maintain. > > True. The compiler probably should show a warning in this case. In fact you can write a case sensitive Ada program, and the compiler will in fact complain if you try to declare two entities where the only difference is case. The only difference with C is that the compiler doesn't warn you, but silently creates two separate entities. :) > Don't tell me it's needed for your weird 7 bit processor with > EBDIC (sp?) character set. Wouldn't think of telling you something untrue.