Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 08/09/06 11:56

Tony Marston wrote:
> "Mark A. Boyd" <mblist@sanDotrr.com.invalid> wrote in message
> news:Xns9819C73F142DCmblistssanDotrrcom@66.75.164.119...
>
>>The august Jerry Stuckle posted August:
>>
>>
>>>Tony Marston wrote:
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>
>>>>I have told you several times. When most people read a word it has the
>>>>same meaning regardless of case. To suddenly say that by simply
>>>>changing the case of one letter you prodce a totally different word is
>>>>confusing. Maintaining someone else's program where the same word is
>>>>used in multiple places, but because of small differences in case it
>>>>actually becomes a different word would be a nightmare to most people.
>>>
>>>Fine. Go teach English.
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>And elsewhere today, Tony Marston wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>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.
>>
>>There you go again. Please don't teach English. You might put another bad
>>mark on our (U.S.) already poor educational system if you are expected to
>>mark a paper by a student named Mark. It may never dawn on you (even in
>>May) that Dawn wrote about Him not about him; that a lamp can help if
>>installing a LAMP at night; that not all dinnerware in China is china;
>>that
>>a march need not be scheduled in March, etc., etc., etc.
>>
>>Tony, if you can't easily see the differences in the words used in the
>>above paragraph - and understand that case changes their meaning to
>>something totally different - then I don't think you'll ever be
>>comfortable
>>with case-sensitive programming languages. I *seriously* doubt that it
>>confuses most programmers when working with written or programming
>>languages. I didn't really think you had this trouble with the written
>>language either, but now that you've reiterated your problem and called it
>>the "End of story", I choose to believe you. Your inability to appreciate
>>the differences determines the "good" or "bad" of it for you and only you.
>>
>>IMO obfuscated and unmaintainable code is written by programmers who are
>>just learning, don't care, in a mad rush, or are doing so intentionally. I
>>can't see where the case-sensitivity of a chosen programming language
>>would
>>be the cause. After all, one should know whether the language supports it
>>or not.
>
>
> Do you support the idea that the ability to create different functions with
> the *same spelling* but *different case* is a good thing? Can you point to
> any online resources which support this idea?
>

Tony,

No one in this thread has suggested doing this. NO ONE BUT STOOPID
TONY, that is.

We use case intelligently. But that's obviously beyond your capability
to understand.


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