Re: The caselessness is one of the things I like best!

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

O.K. That would clearly be a case of creating variables you might not know
about. Arguably, the programmer *meant* to do that as opposed to the old
Fortran problem of just creating misspelled variables on the fly.

In either case, I would prefer that the language prevented it by being case
insensitive. Arguing in favor of case sensitivity is to argue that one wants
the ability to create variables distinguished only be character case. The
circumstance where one might want it to find improperly capitalized
variables IMHO is a bit unwarranted. It only catches stylistic problems, not
semantic problems. Having the compiler spank me for not adhering to naming
conventions is less helpful than having it refuse to do the truly stupid
things - like declaring two objectes differentiated only by character case.

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"Pascal Obry" <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
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>
> I think the point was more like:
>
>         int PdvBg;
>         int PdVBg;
>
>         PdvBg = 8;
>         PdVBg = 2;
>