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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Latest suggestion for 202x Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 07:07:47 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <86h88obeu0.fsf@gaheris.avalon.lan> <39e749cd-de5c-44fa-b8ec-50d36f3bd52c@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 05:07:45 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="6b6c961a218081242397b9b4a272b307"; logging-data="11905"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/Jq9+v8yjPpLCQrPY+SyJv" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:cEmVSneyKZywqHVdljwZV8bW3Lk= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: fr Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:56726 Date: 2019-06-24T07:07:47+02:00 List-Id: Le 23/06/2019 à 19:42, Dennis Lee Bieber a écrit : > It was probably defined that the language itself had to be able to > be written using a minimal character set -- hence the case insensitive > nature of keywords and identifiers, and likely the lack of [] Yes for [], but no for case insensitivity. Case sensitivity brings nothing but confusion. The principle for any decent language is that if two identifiers mean the same thing in the brain of the reader, then they must correspond to the same entity. And the meaning of a word is not changed by casing. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr