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Posted by tony on 12/22/05 17:54
>> I disagree. I have worked for decades with case-insensitive languages
>> and I have always treated $FOO and $foo as the same variable.
> But I didn't say $FOO or $Foo. I said $foo and $foO!
Any programmer who deliberately mixes case like that is a candidate for
the unemployment queue.
> People have no
> trouble will all caps or the first letter capitalized. What about the
> difference between setsLower() and setSlower()? To a human reader
> those have different meanings,
Not to me, they don't. When writing a program I am writing in a
language that a computer understands, so I have to *think* like a
computer. To a computer the case of a word is irrelevant, and so is
it's pronunciation.
> to a case-insensitive compiler they are
> the same.
And to a person who has been using case-insensitive compilers for 30
years they are the same.
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