Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title)

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

Hyman Rosen wrote:

> The reason I've heard cited for case insensitivity is that with
> case sensitivity, you have one English word in your program
> which stands for multiple things, which is confusing, for example
> if you are doing the "telephone test" for code readability (that
> is, seeing if someone else can understand the code upon hearing
> it read instead of looking at it). 

> But since Ada already allows one English word to stand for multiple
> things, I don't find this argument convincing.

It is English which allows for one word to mean multiple things. How is
it better that your coulours are capitalised while moodes are not? Then
one have to remember that for this and this and that it is Mixed
capitalisation and for that it is upper case and this lower case etc...
It is far easier to rather better to use different words than to simply
change the case.

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Preben Randhol                    http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/