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From: martin.dowie@btopenworld.com (Martin Dowie)
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Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title)
Date: 3 Jun 2003 02:53:51 -0700
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"Steve" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com> wrote in message news:<ZXTCa.1089424$F1.129227@sccrnsc04>...
> IMHO, case sensitivity does not ensure consistency of names.  It permits you
> to have Text_IO, Text_Io, text_io and TEXT_IO in the same program, that all
> do different things (Yuk!).  Having seen this sort of thing in some C code,
> I think it's a very bad thing and does do harm.
> 
> Now if you want to add a compiler switch that warns if the same identifier
> appears in different places with different casing... I think that is a good
> idea.  Maybe a smart IDE could even pop-up a list of casings for the same
> identifier and let you choose the "right" one.

Just use a Pretty-Printer! Make it part of your config control process
that
before checking anything in it is passed through the PP. This should
be enough to keep all you code consistent.