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From: Matthew Woodcraft <mattheww@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title)
Date: 10 Jun 2003 19:19:13 +0100 (BST)
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Hyman Rosen wrote:
>I would ban digits from identifiers, and allow '_' as a non-semantic
>separator between letters just like it is used in Ada numbers.

I don't care about the case-sensitivity debate, but I think the second
suggestion is really bad.

I think the confusion caused by equating, say, 'keys_tripped' and
'key_stripped' would be enormously worse than any case-difference
issue.

This issue doesn't arise with numbers, of course.

-M-