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Posted by tony on 12/23/05 11:20
Default User wrote:
> tony@marston-home.demon.co.uk wrote:
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> > >> For God's sake WHY! What problem existed in the
> > >> case-insensitive world that needed to be fixed?
> >
> > > Ask Dennis Ritchie.
> >
> > No, I'm asking you. What problem existed in the case-insensitive world
> > that could ONLY be solved by introducing case-sensitivity?
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> I don't know, and don't really care. It's a pretty pointless
> discussion. Languages that are case sensitive are not going to change
> because a minority of programmers dislikes that feature.
But why should a language which currently has case-insensitive function
names be forced to change? Especially when this would allow the
potentially confusing and dangerous situtation where the same function
name could be declared more than once with different mixtures of case,
thereby creating totally different functions. Are you saying this would
be a good idea? It appears that you are.
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