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Posted by Stan McCann on 08/10/06 21:11
"Tony Marston" <tony@NOSPAM.demon.co.uk> wrote in
news:ebf8d2$fg6$1$830fa7a5@news.demon.co.uk:
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> "Mark A. Boyd" <mblist@sanDotrr.com.invalid> wrote in message
> news:Xns981A678D8E11BmblistssanDotrrcom@66.75.164.119...
>> On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:45:24 GMT, Tony Marston posted in
>> comp.lang.php:
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>>> "Mark A. Boyd" <mblist@sanDotrr.com.invalid> wrote in message
>>> news:Xns9819C73F142DCmblistssanDotrrcom@66.75.164.119...
>>>> The august Jerry Stuckle posted August:
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>>>>> Tony Marston wrote:
> I *do not* accept the idea that just because *some* languages allow
> this disgraceful state of affairs that it is now the *new standard*
> and should therefore be applied to all languages.
There's nothing new or disgraceful about it. Unix has always been case
sensitive and some programming languages follow suit. There is nothing
wrong with being case sensitive. I do agree that the same names with
different case shouldn't be used except in a few cases where it could
make sense to do so.
> Hands up those who agree with me.
>
Hand maybe a quarter way up; definitely not fully.
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