Posted by Stan McCann on 08/11/06 16:44

"Tony Marston" <tony@NOSPAM.demon.co.uk> wrote in
news:ebi3ft$2l1$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk:

>
> "Stan McCann" <me@stanmccann.us> wrote in message
> news:Xns981B9A2BC7EBEstanmccann@216.234.192.142...
>> "Tony Marston" <tony@NOSPAM.demon.co.uk> wrote in
>> news:ebf8d2$fg6$1$830fa7a5@news.demon.co.uk:
>>
>>>
>>> "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:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "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:

> There is no halfway house. You either see the problems that can be
> caused by allowing functions with the *same spelling* but *different
> case* to be *different* functions and want to prevent them, or you
> encourage them. If you allow the language to have such a feature
> then some programmers will use it while others will abuse it. That
> is why different languages and different programming standards
> disallow the use of such things as the GOTO verb - because of the
> potential to produce obfuscated and unmaintainale code.
>

You truly are stoopid as Jerry has said. Of course there is a middle
ground, not everything is black and white.

Bye bye, off to my killfile now.

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