Re: The caselessness is one of the things I like best!

[gerhard.nospam@bigfoot.de (Gerhard Häring)]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 17:00:03 GMT, tmoran@acm.org <tmoran@acm.org> 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.
>  In fact you can write a case sensitive Ada program, and the compiler
>will in fact complain if you try to declare two entities where the only
>difference is case.  The only difference with C is that the compiler
>doesn't warn you, but silently creates two separate entities.  :)

It's probably best described by an example what I mean with inconsistent
casing.

    VAR n: Integer;
    BEGIN
        N := 5;

I'd want to get a syntax error here. IIRC I can get GNAT to warn me
about this and you will perhaps think that this is only a matter of
style and best handled by tools apart from the compiler.

Perhaps I'm irrational but Ada's behaviour here reminds me too much of
BASIC.

This is one of the rare points where Ada allows the programmer to do
something stupid.

Gerhard
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I happen to like strict languages wrt to s
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