Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title)

[Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>]

Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> Lionel.DRAGHI@fr.thalesgroup.com wrote:
> > Your code example is pretty, but using different names
>  > instead of different casing is as easy and less error prone.
> 
> If that were the case, then overloading would not be legal.

Too strongly worded. There are many enormous advantages to allowing
overloading, and the Ada team judged that they outweighed the
disadvantage of sometimes being confusing.

I certainly have an informal coding standard that says "don't name a
procedure 'Get' if it acts like 'Put'". But that doesn't mean I don't
want overloading.

For case sensitivity, there is a similar tradeoff; in this case, the
Ada team decided not to have case sensitivity.

In both cases, I agree with the choices, which is one of the reasons I
like Ada.

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-- Stephe