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Subject: Re: The caselessness is one of the things I like best!
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:21:28 +0200
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On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:06:18 +0200, Petter Fryklund <qsbpefr@esavionics.se> wrote:
> 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. But
Ada's case insensitivity is so stupid it hurts. Don't tell me it's
needed for your weird 7 bit processor with EBDIC (sp?) character set.
Cross-compile if you need to support such broken processors.

I want inconsistent casing to be a syntax error in a language. Oh yes.
And the keywords be either lower or upper case, too (I'd prefer upper
case as in MODULA-2/3).

Gerhard
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