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Posted by Tony Marston on 11/07/19 11:55
"Geoff Berrow" <blthecat@ckdog.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Message-ID: <eaq2ln$7jc$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk> from Tony Marston
> contained the following:
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>>My opinion is exactly the opposite. The spelling of a word is important,
>>the
>>case is not.
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> 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.
Not in the English language. 'box', 'Box' and 'BOX' all mean the same
thing. If there are several different boxes then different identifiers are
used, such as "the big box", "the small box", etc. Nobody uses different
combinations of case to identify different instances of "box".
--
Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org.
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