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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,66bc6b039f1e005d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-10-10 19:12:46 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!europa.netcrusader.net!4.1.16.34!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!howland.erols.net!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.sttls1.wa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Reply-To: "DuckE" From: "DuckE" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <2BED68CA963D6D55.A78776F656DA0452.75A61ED22116F1B6@lp.airnews.net> <39e2588f.21565740@news.demon.co.uk> <39E2D51E.D0122F20@bton.ac.uk> <8s0b78$2no$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Subject: Re: Three simple questions X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 02:12:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.221.63 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.sttls1.wa.home.com 971230364 24.6.221.63 (Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:12:44 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:12:44 PDT Organization: @Home Network Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:1142 Date: 2000-10-11T02:12:44+00:00 List-Id: > Case sensitivity enforces consistency among code produced by different > programmmers. Imagine programmer A insists on writing runTimeeXception > and programmer B insits writing runtimeexcception. Maybe you yourself > on Monday decides to write runtimeException and on Tuesday, > RUNTIMEEXCEPTION. Now, that is sick. Well, if you can do anything > *useFUl* in Ada, you don't have to write it in Java. > I disagree. Case sensitivity would enforce consistency among code produced by different programmers if and only if the occurrance of two variables with the same spelling and different case produced a compilation time error. Otherwise: Programmer #1 uses "runtimeException" Programmer #2 uses "runTimeException" Programmer #3 uses "RunTimeException" Refer to different values, which might or might not be correct. BTW: I have seen 'C' code with little traces of the difficulty with case sensitivity that were compensated for by adding: #define runTimeError runtimeError FWIW SteveD