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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/21/52 11:54
Tony Marston wrote:
> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:p9CdnaiGK78Gt1LZnZ2dnUVZ_sqdnZ2d@comcast.com...
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>>Tony Marston wrote:
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> <snip>
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>>>If you care to look back at previous posts in this thread you will see
>>>where posters have argued the importance of different case in such
>>>circumstances.
>>>
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>>I haven't seen any of these languages you talk about, in this thread or
>>anywhere else. You made a claim - now let's see you back it up.
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> Do our own dirty work. It was definitely said in a previous post that some
> programmers, by convention and not a language requirement, use different
> case to help differentiate between constants, variables, functions and
> methods. PHP makes it very easy to differentiate between those objects, so
> the use of different case is irrelevant. Yet those same programmers are now
> saying "what was a convention is now a rule", and I object to that.
No, you made an unsubstantiated claim, then when I called you on it
edited my post to completely change the context. To remind you of what
your said:
> Only in the minds of a few. Case sensitivity was introduced as a programmer
> convention to get around the problem caused by some languages which cannot
> identify the difference between a variable, a constant, a function and a
> method.
Again I ask you - substantiate this claim. Exactly which languages are
these?
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