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Posted by Mark A. Boyd on 08/05/06 00:50
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:01:28 GMT, Tony Marston posted in comp.lang.php:
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> "Miguel Cruz" <spam@admin.u.nu> wrote in message
> news:spam-084ED9.22403403082006@localhost...
>> "Tony Marston" <tony@NOSPAM.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>> 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".
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>> First, until a couple hundred years ago it was common to capitalize
>> nouns in English as the Germans still do. The capital letter encoded a
>> grammatical hint. I guess they could have put dollar signs in front of
>> them but that's water under the bridge. You may still be able to
>> convince the Germans to do that.
>>
>> In colloquial English today capital letters can encode all sorts of
>> meaning. All-caps is used for emphasis.
>
> Exactly. Different case can cange the emphasis, but not the meaning.
> "box", "Box" and "BOX" still has the same meaning whichever case is
> used.
I wasn't going to jump in here, but with a first name like mine, I just have
to. You've said this multiple times in regards to the English language.
I have a hard time believing that you think case does not change the meaning
for "mark" (or "dawn" as previously posted). Do you?
Does "Him" not mean something different to you than "him"? Note that this
particular word can be used in the same context, yet still invoke different
meanings - for everybody I know, anyway.
<Back to the regularly scheduled "Case sensitivity in programming
languages." discussion.>
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Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)
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