Posted by Tony Marston on 01/01/06 22:00

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Tony Marston wrote:
>> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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>>
>>>
>>>Not in C, C++, Java, etc. they aren't. And we're talking COMPUTER
>>>languages here - not HUMAN languages. Or can't you figure out the
>>>difference?
>>
>>
>> But the point of this argument is that variable names such as 'box',
>> 'Box' and 'BOX' should all indicate the same variable, not different
>> variables. If you really want to have three different boxes you would use
>> names such as 'box1', 'box2' and 'box3' to avoid any confusion.
>>
>> Is there any computer language which has built-in function and variable
>> names which come with different capitalisation to me different things? If
>> they do not make use of this feature, then why provide it in the first
>> place?
>>
>> Would any sensible programmer deliberately create the same function and
>> variable names with different capitalisation to me different things?
>> Would this make the program more or less maintainable? If no sensible
>> programmer would use this feature, then why provide it in the first
>> place?
>>
>> Your argument seems to be "It exists, therefore it must be good".
>>
>> My argument is "It is not good, therefore it should not exist".
>>
>> Tony Marston
>
> You keep rehashing the same argument. It's gone beyond stupid to inane,
> and soon to go beyond that. I and others have already responded to these
> trite statements. Yet you keep on.
>
> Give it up, Tony. You're showing how big of an ass you really are.

I refuse to give it up for the simple reason that have yet to answer a
simple question regarding case-sensitivity.

Would any sensible programmer deliberately create variable or function names
in different mixtures of upper and lower case to mean different things? If,
as I strongly believe, no sensible programmer would do this, then why allow
the language to provide such a useless "feature" in the first place?

It's such a simple question, yet all you do is talk around it.

Tony Marston

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