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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:41:57 +0000 (UTC)
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Hyman Rosen wrote:
>      type color is ( red, green, blue );
>      type mood is ( cheerful, angry, blue );

This doesn't have to do with upper case or lower case it has to do with
English language.

And I guess your solution would be:

   type color is ( Red, Green, blue );
   type mood is ( cheerful, angry, Blue );

;-)

> This means that just looking at an identifier, I can't immediately
> know what it is - I may have to analyze a complicated overload to
> figure it out, or have my IDE do that for me. If it turns out that
> I used the identifier in an incorrect context, the compiler will
> tell me. So since we're already in this situation, I fail to see
> how case sensitivity makes things any worse, except that some people
> just don't like it.

You are trying to make soup by cooking a nail I see.

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Preben Randhol                    http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/