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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Case insensitivity
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Date: 23 Feb 89 15:10:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Feb 23 09:10:00 1989


In article <317@sagpd1.UUCP> banderso@sagpd1.UUCP (Bruce Anderson) writes:
>My question is, does everyone think that the case-insensitivity of
>Ada is a positive feature and if so why? Personally, if I see a
>variable 'aBcDe' and another one 'AbCdE' they don't immediately strike
>me as being the same and is therefore confusing when they are.

Why care? This is one of the lesser concerns about a language.