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On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 03:55:21 -0400, And838 wrote:

> Bobby Bryant wrote:
>>Also, it's not uncommon to find someone who tries to do "cute" things to
>>optimize some local operation for speed, but then embeds it in a horribly
>>inefficient exponential-time algorithm.
> 
> yeah, like bubble sort in assembler.  I shouldn't laugh.  I'll probably make this mistake once, and hopefully ONLY once.
> 
> Thanks Robert for the information!  There is a lot there for me to investigate and learn!
> 
> In my "learning session" today I noticed that a lot of the current Ada procedures and functions (dare I call them methods?) have those pesky '_'s in them.  Any plans in Ada200x for case sensitivity?  Maybe a command line flag if you want to have case sensitivity.
> 
> The syntax could be less finger stretchy with all the '_'s and we could have toUnboundedString instead of to_unbounded_string.  You could have x: Integer; and X: Integer;!!  What a bonus right?!  Just a thought.
> 
> Thanks again for the help!
> 
> Andrew

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Luke.