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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:57:51 -0400
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Lionel.DRAGHI@fr.thalesgroup.com wrote:
 > Some of the funny code obfuscation examples
 > use case sensitivity.

Deliberately bad code is hardly a justification.

But since we've been arguing about readability
and English usage and so on, what is the reason
for allowing digits in identifiers? After all,
until 133t-speak emerged, natural language did
not use digits in words, and that would prevent
confusion between 0 and O and 1 and l.