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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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> I want case to matter so that I can simultaneously have
> the same spelling but different case mean different things.
> The most frequent argument I've seen against this is that
> this will cause confusion for the readers of the code, to
> have one word mean different things just because of case.
> Therefore the overloading argument is relevant - you can
> have one word that means different things even without case
> distinction.
>
> Do we have to go through all this yet again?
>

Let's do a hypothetical experiment:

Reverse the cases of all the letters in what you wrote.

Or, just go random on them :-)

It sure would make it hard to read but would it change
the meaning one iota?