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From: "DuckE" <nospam_steved94@home.com>
Subject: Re: Three simple questions
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 02:12:44 GMT
Date: 2000-10-11T02:12:44+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <w0QE5.164752$Ur3.2429922@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8s0b78$2no$1@nnrp1.deja.com

> Case sensitivity enforces consistency among code produced by different
> programmmers. Imagine programmer A insists on writing runTimeeXception
> and programmer B insits writing runtimeexcception. Maybe you  yourself
> on Monday decides to write runtimeException and on Tuesday,
> RUNTIMEEXCEPTION. Now, that is sick. Well, if you can do anything
> *useFUl* in Ada, you don't have to write it in Java.
>

I disagree.  Case sensitivity would enforce consistency among code produced
by different programmers if and only if the occurrance of two variables with
the same spelling and different case produced a compilation time error.

Otherwise:

  Programmer #1 uses "runtimeException"
  Programmer #2 uses "runTimeException"
  Programmer #3 uses "RunTimeException"

Refer to different values, which might or might not be correct.

BTW: I have seen 'C' code with little traces of the difficulty with case
sensitivity that were compensated for by adding:

#define runTimeError runtimeError

FWIW

SteveD






  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-10-11  2:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-09  0:00 Three simple questions Frank Christiny
2000-10-09  0:00 ` John McCabe
2000-10-09  0:00   ` Frank Christiny
2000-10-10  0:00     ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-10-10  0:00       ` Case for case-sensitivity (Was: Three simple questions) Frank Christiny
2000-10-10  0:00         ` tmoran
2000-10-10  0:00         ` mjsilva
2000-10-10  0:00           ` John Magness
2000-10-10  0:00         ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2000-10-10  0:00         ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-10  0:00         ` David Starner
2000-10-12  0:00           ` John English
2000-10-11  0:00         ` John English
2000-10-11  0:00           ` Frank Christiny
2000-10-12  0:00             ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-10-14  0:00             ` nickerson
2000-10-15  1:48               ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-15  0:00                 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-10-11  0:00         ` dmitry6243
2000-10-11  4:39         ` Ken Garlington
2000-10-10  0:00     ` Three simple questions John English
2000-10-10  0:00       ` Dale Stanbrough
2000-10-10  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-10-10  0:00         ` John English
2000-10-10  0:00           ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-11  0:00             ` Tucker Taft
2000-10-11  0:00               ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-12  0:00                 ` Tucker Taft
2000-10-12  0:00                   ` The AI process (was: Three simple questions) Ted Dennison
2000-10-12  0:00                     ` Marc A. Criley
2000-10-12  0:00                       ` Tucker Taft
2000-10-16  0:00                   ` Three simple questions Robert A Duff
2000-10-11  0:11       ` wv12
2000-10-10  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-10-14  3:25           ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-15  0:00             ` The Ludwig Family
2000-10-16  0:00               ` Florian Weimer
2000-10-17  0:00                 ` David Starner
2000-10-18  0:00                   ` Florian Weimer
2000-10-19  0:00                     ` David Starner
2000-10-21  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-21  0:00                         ` David Starner
2000-10-23  0:00                           ` Robert A Duff
2000-10-28 11:00                             ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-28 10:56                           ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-28 10:57                           ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-21  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-21  0:00                       ` David Starner
2000-10-16  3:10               ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-17  0:00                 ` The Ludwig Family
2000-10-16  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
2000-10-16  0:00             ` James Hassett
2000-10-16  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-16  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-11  0:00         ` mjsilva
2000-10-11  0:00         ` John English
2000-10-11  0:00           ` Pascal Obry
2000-10-11  0:00         ` David Gillon
2000-10-11  2:12         ` DuckE [this message]
2000-10-10  0:47   ` Larry Elmore
2000-10-10  1:16     ` Ed Falis
2000-10-11  3:47       ` Jeff Carter
2000-10-13  0:00         ` Philippe Torres
2000-10-13  0:00   ` Stefan Skoglund
2000-10-10  0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-10-11  3:59   ` Jeff Carter
2000-10-14  0:00   ` Keith Thompson
2000-10-10  0:42 ` Ken Garlington
2000-10-11  0:00 ` Simon Wright
2000-10-14  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-11  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-10-12  1:05   ` Bjarne Bäckström
2000-10-13  0:00     ` Anders Wirzenius
2000-10-13  0:00       ` Bjarne Bäckström
2000-10-16  0:00         ` Anders Wirzenius
2000-10-13  0:00       ` Wes Groleau
2000-10-14  3:28         ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-11  0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-10-13  0:00   ` Keith Thompson
2000-10-13  0:00     ` Marin David Condic
2000-10-13  0:00       ` Wes Groleau
     [not found]         ` <39EAEEEA.4F58C47C@cepsz.unizar.es>
2000-10-16  0:00           ` David Starner
2000-10-16  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
2000-10-16  0:00               ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-10-16  0:00                 ` Florian Weimer
2000-10-17  0:43                 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-17  0:00                   ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-10-17  0:00                     ` Florian Weimer
2000-11-03  7:24                   ` E. E. Cummings (was Re: Three simple questions) Robert I. Eachus
2000-10-17  0:00               ` Three simple questions Keith Thompson
2000-10-17  0:00             ` Wes Groleau
2000-10-14  0:37       ` Ken Garlington
2000-10-14  0:00   ` Richard Kenner
2000-10-14  0:00     ` Laurent Guerby
2000-10-16  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
2000-10-16  0:00         ` Laurent Guerby
2000-10-17  0:00           ` Ronald Cole
2000-10-17  0:00         ` Wes Groleau
2000-10-14  0:00     ` Marin David Condic
2000-10-11  0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-10-11  0:00 ` Larry Hazel
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