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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title)
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 17:16:08 +0200
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Preben Randhol wrote:

>Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
>> This would render the "advantages" of case-sensitivity completely
>> useless but force the programmers to have a consistent style in all
>> places without any style check or pretty printers. :-P
>
>And the gain is what?

s/is/would be/, please. I wouldn't seriously support such an approach.

The gain would be forcing a consistent style to the programmer without
falling back to a machine-based pretty printer.

Call that sadism or so. ;-)


Vinzent.