From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8d472879e3f609e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-02 07:44:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:44:58 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1054565098 23782 129.241.83.78 (2 Jun 2003 14:44:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:44:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38354 Date: 2003-06-02T14:44:58+00:00 List-Id: Sergey Koshcheyev wrote: > "Preben Randhol" wrote in message > news:slrnbdmifm.532.randhol+abuse@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no... >> Preben Randhol wrote: >> > Sergey Koshcheyev wrote: >> >> Yes, the switch is fine, but it still doesn't let me name a function >> >> parameter "At", for example. >> > >> > Why shouldn't you? >> >> Opps sorry misread what you said. Ok then it is the rules of ACT that >> prohibits this. But it doesn't matter which case it is. I always write > > No, it's because "At" is a reserved word. Also reserved are "Of", "In", > "Range", "Use", all of them being quite common. I haven't experienced the need to use any of them. > >> Put_Line New_Line etc.. because to *me* this is more reable, but I don't >> want to force this on others. Beside if there is a New_Line and a >> new_line which should I choose? > > I don't understand the question. New_Line, of course :-) I mean there could be a New_Line and a new_line procedure. One adding a linefeed to Standard_Out the other to Standard_Error > I don't want complete freedom and anarchy, but just to be able to use > capitalized identifiers which collide with reserved words, and are thus > unusable. This means you have then defined all reserved words as lowercase. Anyway I think you will find that it is no problem that Ada isn't case sensitive when you get used to it :-) -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/