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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: _Type vs no _Type
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:28:09 -0400
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"Vinzent Hoefler" <nntp-2010-10@t-domaingrabbing.de> writes:

> On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:24:09 +0100, Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.theworld.com> wrote:
>
>> By the way, I don't like case sensitivity, and I don't like
>> case insensitivity, either.  A better rule is the one
>> implemented by GNAT in its default mode (or with -gnatwe).
>
> ? "-gnatwe" is "treat warning as errors" (at least here, GNAT GPL2010).

Right.  I don't think there's a big difference between errors
and warnings in practise.

> Do you mean the rule, that once you declared an identifier, you have
> to stick to its casing?

Yes.

It all gets very complicated with Unicode, but I mostly
stick with 7-bit ASCII, so I'm reasonably happy with this GNAT
rule.

> What do you call that? "Case stickiness"?

I don't have a name for it.  "Case stickiness" is reasonable,
I suppose.

- Bob