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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: RE: Why not combine Ada and C++?
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In article <mailman.1003874733.1432.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, "Beard, Frank" <beardf@spawar.navy.mil> writes:

> However, as a minor exception to that, we do use all uppercase to
> indicate constants, as in MAXIMUM_DEVICES.

That must make for a lot of editing when a former constant becomes
a variable or a function call in some subsequent version.