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I guess we have to go through it all again.

We've seen sevral examples of code which benefits from
case sensitivity (that is, it's used to good effect).
One was "FILE *file", another was enumerators which were
the same name as, but in different case than, the classes
they referred to. I like case sensitivity because I like
to have this naming possibility. I find the argument that
this is confusing and error-prone to be a feeble excuse
for what is a simple prejudice against this feature, no
doubt stemming from Ada's Pascal roots and antipathy
towards C. I find the argument that English is case-
insensitive to be simply incorrect.

OK?