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From: Ray Blaak <rAYblaaK@STRIPCAPStelus.net>
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Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> writes:
> On Aug 7, 10:01 am, Ray Blaak <rAYbl...@STRIPCAPStelus.net> wrote:
> 
> > Before I get blasted about the evils of case insensitivity, I should point out
> > that Java is a unicode language, allows unicode in its identifiers, and case
> > folding is not sensical in the general case for unicode characters. With Ada
> > being essentially an ASCII language, the case folding debate has merit.
> 
> First of all, Java (like C and Unix) is case-sensitive, not case-
> insensitive.  Ada is case-insensitive.  You have the two backwards.

Ack! Of course. Thanks for the correction.

> 
> Second, Ada (starting with Ada 2005) does allow ISO 10646 (Unicode)
> characters in its identifiers, and it defines how it handles its case
> insensitivity for identifiers, which I think involves the "Uppercase
> Mapping" defined by ISO 10646:2003.  So case folding does make sense
> for programming languages that allow Unicode characters in
> identifiers, including Ada.

I guess they were forced to deal with it somehow. It's a problem I would
rather just avoid, myself.

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