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Posted by Geoff Berrow on 12/02/27 11:54
Message-ID: <eaq2ln$7jc$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk> from Tony Marston
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>My opinion is exactly the opposite. The spelling of a word is important, the
>case is not.
My girl friend is named Dawn (true, I haven't made it up). The case is
important in differentiating the name from the event. You yourself used
case when you quoted '1066 and all that' to differentiate 'bad thing'
from 'Bad Thing'. (perhaps you did not know it was a quote - even so,
you sought to add more meaning to the words my the use of capitals).
The Bauhous movement in Germany in the 1920s sought to remove capital
letters from the German language (in German all nouns are capitalised
and so they have rather a surfeit of capitals). It didn't catch on.
Capital letters change the meaning of words. OK, it's perfectly
possible to program in PHP in all upper or all lower case or any
convention that suits you. But to suggest that disregarding case is
logical flies in the face of the normal conventions in language.
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