Re: Three simple questions

[John English <je@bton.ac.uk>]

wv12@my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> In article <39E2D51E.D0122F20@bton.ac.uk>,
> 
> > I'm dead against case sensitivity. For example, in Java you not only
> > have to remember a zillion API calls to do anything useful, you also
> > have to remember how they're capitalised. The Java rule is that class
> > names have EachWordCapitalised (or is that EachWordCapitalized? :-),
> > which is fine when you can remember whether "run time" is one word
> > or two (is it RuntimeException or RunTimeException?).
> 
> Case sensitivity enforces consistency among code produced by different
> programmmers. Imagine programmer A insists on writing runTimeeXception
> and programmer B insits writing runtimeexcception. Maybe you  yourself
> on Monday decides to write runtimeException and on Tuesday,
> RUNTIMEEXCEPTION. Now, that is sick. Well, if you can do anything
> *useFUl* in Ada, you don't have to write it in Java.

So what's wrong with running a prettyprinter over the code? Any
sensible prettyprinter will not only enforce a layout standard,
it'll enforce a capitalisation standard (turn runtime_exception
into Runtime_Exception)? Software tools are supposed to make life
easier, not harder (although there are many counter-examples ;-)
-- why have a dog and bark yourself?

Whitespace sensitivity would be good too, by your argument; it
would enforce consistent layout standards.

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