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Posted by Gertjan Klein on 08/05/06 08:07
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>Tony Marston wrote:
>>
>> The ability to have 3 different functions called readfile(), readFile() and
>> ReadFile() causes problems.
>>
>> The ability to have 3 different variables called box, Box and BOX causes
>> problems.
>>
>> Or am I the only person who can see this?
>
>Yep, you're the only person to see it, Tony. The rest of us are more
>intelligent than that.
Please don't speak for me (or qualify "the rest of us", next time). He
is not the only one, and your disparaging comments don't make you look
all that intelligent. Although I'm not as persistent in this thread as
you and some others, I still largely agree with Tony that what he
describes above causes more problems than it solves. Neither you nor I
have any idea what the silent lurkers think.
>BOX is a defined constant
>Box is a class name
>box is a variable name - an object of type Box
Tony specifically described three *variables* called box, Box, and BOX.
Not a constant, classname, and variable.
Using the same name, with different case, for related things, as you
described above, is a sensible convention to do things -- in languages
that can't distinguish these things in another way, and that are case
sensitive. It does not mean that making a language case sensitive is a
good thing in itself.
I personally (slightly, not religiously) would prefer it if a language
had other means to distinguish between classes, constants, variables,
etc., rather than having to rely on programmers adhering to such
conventions (I've seen too many that don't). This is a personal
preference, to which I'm entitled, as you are to yours, obviously.
Trying to make such a preference into a universal truth (as both you and
Tony try to do) does not make a lot of sense to me.
Gertjan.
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Gertjan Klein <gklein@xs4all.nl>
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