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Posted by Tony Marston on 08/09/06 09:49
"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Tony Marston wrote:
>> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
>> news:MbydnaBugoftvUrZnZ2dnUVZ_qOdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>>
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>> Can you point to to any papers on the internet which say that such a
>> practice is a good thing?
>>
>
> That wasn't what I said. I said use the same function name - including
> case - in different functions. In language such as C++ and Java you could
> have any number of functions called "readFile". But I'm sure your poor
> brain would blow at such an idea.
Just because you *could* have many different functions with the same name
does not mean that you *should*. Most people would find that confusing.
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>>
>> That's just your opinion. I still firmly believe that most programmers
>> would be confused if they encountered a word with the same spelling but
>> different case which actually meant something totally different. This is
>> not the case in any spoken language, nor is it the case most computer
>> languages. It is confusing, it leads to obfuscated and unmaintainable
>> code, therefore it is a bad thing. Period. End of story.
>>
>
> Mine and most of the people in this newsgroup. None of use would ever
> hire you.
I never trained as a proctologist, so I should never have to work with
a**holes.
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Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org
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