Posted by Tony Marston on 07/31/06 10:28

"Richard Levasseur" <richardlev@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1154281887.489543.70710@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
>
> Tony Marston wrote:
>>
>> Annoying is right. The problems that this could potentially cause
>> seriously
>> outweighs any benefits (what benefits?)
>>
>> --
>> Tony Marston
>> http://www.tonymarston.net
>> http://www.radicore.org
>
> Benefits such as a standard meta-syntax,

What is meta-syntax, what benefits do standards bring, and who set those
standards?

> so we don't have to rely on intelli-sense,

What's wrong with intellisense? If it is built into an IDE which detects
what you have keyed in and automatically adjusts the case to match the
previous declaration then surely by not using it you are exposing youself to
the problems brought about by using a case-sensitive system. Surely this
simply demonstrates that case-sensitivity is a problem and not a solution.

> constantly refer back to the declaration and documentation,

If the system is not case-sensitive then he possibility of having multiple
declarations of the same thing in different case would not be a problem.

> or some smart ass who LiKEs To ALTerN4t3 c4ps and
> condense everything into as few lines as possible.

Any moron who deliberately uses mixed case to cause confusion deserves
nothing more than a poke in the eye with a pointed stick. But if the
language was not sensitive to case then it would not be a problem in the
first place, now would it?

> After all, we should strive for code that is as self-documenting as
> possible.

What has case-sensitivity got to do with self-documenting code? I have been
writing self-documenting code for 25+ years using case-insensitive languages
without any problems.

--
Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org

[Back to original message]