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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: _Type vs no _Type
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"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:

> Sorry, but have a look at all the new languages and also at the list of
> most popular languages. They are almost all, if not all, case
> sensitive. There must be a good reason for this.

I don't buy arguments based on popularity, nor on new-ness.
If I did, I wouldn't be using Ada, which is neither the
most popular, nor the newest, programming language!  ;-)

In most popular/new languages, if you don't give others/default
in a case/switch/whatever statement, the case statement is a no-op.
"There must be a good reason for this."???  Well, no, there
is no good reason -- it's just a bad idea.  Ada does it
right.

- Bob