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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title)
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"Sergey Koshcheyev" <serko84@hotmail.com> writes:

> "Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
> news:wccznkzjcvc.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com...
> >     function Put(string: String);
> >
> > would be fine.  Presumably, the "String" after ":" would resolve to the
> > type name in Standard, since that's what is expected after ":".  ("The
> > type of type is type.")
> 
> I'd probably even allow
> 
> procedure Put (String : String);
> 
> (even though it will sound like too much a heresy :-))

I agree.  I'm an Ada advocate, and also a heretic.  ;-)

> Or are there places where it would be too confusing?

It could never be allowed in Ada, because we have things like
String'Last.  But in a different language, one could declare that
ambiguous.

In general, I think a good language-design principle should be:
anything that might be confused by the programmer should be illegal.

- Bob