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From: mjsilva@my-deja.com
Subject: Re: Three simple questions
Date: 2000/10/11
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In article <8s0b78$2no$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  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.

No doubt such perverse programmers would similarly amuse themselves
with the following:

char runTimeeXception;
int runtimeexcception;
short runtimeException;
long RUNTIMEEXCEPTION;

int this_exception = runTimeeXception;  /* correct or not? */

Perhaps the solution is to train or fire perverse programmers.


> Well, if you can do anything
> *useFUl* in Ada, you don't have to write it in Java.

I'll drink to that!
>
> > Since humans consider 'D' and 'd' to be variant representations of
> > the same letter, why shouldn't programming languages?
> >
> Human only invents ASCII where 'd' and 'D' has different values.

And then they write extra searching and sorting code to treat them as
equivalent...
>
>
> The way I see it, case insensitive languages just show they are aging.

The way I see it case insensitivity allows me to avoid dealing with
unimportant but irritating baggage.

Mike


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