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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/03/94 11:55
Tony Marston wrote:
> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:O4udnUg-gOAPmkzZnZ2dnUVZ_oWdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>
>>Tony Marston wrote:
>>
>>>"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
>>>news:p9CdnaiGK78Gt1LZnZ2dnUVZ_sqdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>>>
>>>
>>>>Tony Marston wrote:
>>>
>>><snip>
>>>
>>>>>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.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>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:
>
>
> My claim is not unsubstantiated. Read through the previous posts in this
> thread and you will see for yourself.
>
I have read every post here. Again - substantiate your claim. But you
can't, because it isn't in this thread. Just another unsubstantiated
claim you pulled out of your arse in a disparate attempt to bolster your
losing arguments.
Typical troll - you can't fight facts so you try to make things up.
>
>>>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?
>
>
> I don't know because I have never used those languages. Other posters in
> this thread have stated that because their language (whatever it was) did
> not provide any in-built means to differentiate between constants,
> variables, functions and methods that they introduced the convention of
> using different combinations of upper and lower case as a visual aid when
> looking at the code. This was *not* a language requirement but a programmer
> convention. Those same programmers are now trying to change this programmer
> convention into a language requirement by insisting that the use of upper
> and lower case is now enforced by the language.
>
> That is one of my objections, that what started as a *programmer convention*
> to get around the deficiencies of a particular language has bee elevated to
> a *requirement* in all languages.
>
Ah, so now you say it was a convention, not the fact the language
couldn't differentiate. Which is it, Tony? And which language? I
still haven't seen anything here.
And what makes you think that "programmer convention" was elevated to a
"requirement"? Or can you even prove that claim? I think now because
they are completely unrelated.
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