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From: Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Three simple questions
Date: 2000/10/13
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Ahhhhh.... So you admit that in all three cases, it remains *my*name*! :-) The
identifier here references the same object (actually, "subject", but thats
philosophy) I didn't say character case was irrelevent to understanding.
Obviously, we invented upper and lower case to be able to change some
characteristics of the words we were representing. But seldom does character
case imply a complete change of meaning.

I'll admit you've got me there with Polish and polish. :-)

MDC

Keith Thompson wrote:

> Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org> writes:
> [...]
> > Ada is not case-sensitive because case-sensitivity is a bad idea. In
> > normal English usage, there is no significant difference between "Marin"
> > or "MARIN" or mArIn".
>
> The first is your name, the second is your name shouted, and the third
> is your name in a ransom note.
>
> And then of course there's "polish" vs. "Polish".
>
> 8-)}

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