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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: strange length check error
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 13:15:15 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2018-01-17, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
>
> I agree. It's not the one from the standard library ((a) it's different,
> (b) the standard library doesn't use this ugly, hard to read,
> identifiers-in-upper-case style).
>

Someone was obviously following the Ada 83 style when they wrote that
code...

Not as annoying as some Wirth case sensitive languages however where
the keywords themselves are in uppercase. (Oberon comes to mind here.)

Simon.

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