Re: Caselessness...

[David Brown <davidb-cla@davidb.org>]

FGD <presbeis@look.ca> wrote:

> This is a distant followup to another thread. I don't think Ada's case 
> insensitiveness is a problem, though I wonder... Ada 95 was designed to 
> support characters from many different natural languages. Couldn't there 
> be a "loophole" here, couldn't a disgruntled C programmer define a 
> CaseSensitiveEnglish language wherein upper and lower case analogues are 
> distinguished just like 'e' and '?' are distinguished in French?

AFIK, the English language only has one pair of words that can be
distinguished by case: August (the month), and august (marked by
majestic dignity or grandeur).  Since one is a noun, and the other is an
adjective, I would have a hard time seeing them used in a conflicting
way.  The adjective variant is not used frequently in English anyway.

Besides that, the adjective at the start of a sentence is still the
adjective.  English is ambiguous in many other ways.

Identifiers generally aren't capitalized according to English rules
anyway, but according to style guidelines.

Dave Brown