From: "G.B." <bauhaus@notmyhomepage.invalid>
Subject: Re: GNAT vs UTF-8 source file names
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 07:05:46 +0200
Date: 2017-06-28T07:05:46+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <oivd82$muf$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <erg20jF3scdU1@mid.individual.net>
On 27.06.17 23:45, Niklas Holsti wrote:
>
>> One of my customers simply has a policy saying that all identifiers
>> have to be in English (the policy doesn't say if it should be American
>> English or proper English), and thus neatly works around the problem.
>
> Only if you stick to "modern" English spelling. Otherwise you could have, for example,
>
> package Coördinates is ...
Just like some might be tempted to use floating point
types when they have permission to use integer types
instead: the support for the more complicated, error
prone, and difficult new floating point type is partially
broken, so, programmers, let us get away with the current
support situation by preferring integer types. They are much
more portable, anyway!
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-30 17:10 GNAT vs UTF-8 source file names Simon Wright
2017-06-17 17:20 ` Simon Wright
2017-06-27 13:22 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2017-06-27 21:45 ` Niklas Holsti
2017-06-28 5:05 ` G.B. [this message]
2017-07-04 13:57 ` Simon Wright
2017-07-04 17:30 ` Shark8
2017-07-04 18:08 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2017-07-05 5:25 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-07-06 15:18 ` Shark8
2017-07-07 8:19 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-07-05 5:21 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-07-05 9:47 ` Simon Wright
2017-07-05 11:20 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-07-05 18:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-07-06 18:43 ` Simon Wright
2017-07-07 8:26 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-07-07 11:01 ` Simon Wright
2017-07-07 11:49 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2017-07-07 19:44 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-07-07 19:40 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-07-07 21:02 ` Simon Wright
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