Posted by Wayne on 01/03/06 08:51

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 20:00:56 -0000, "Tony Marston"
<tony@NOSPAM.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Would any sensible programmer deliberately create variable or function names
>in different mixtures of upper and lower case to mean different things?

As I mentioned in my previous posting, yes. As I mentioned in a
posting a week or so ago with the same content, yes. It happens all
the time in case-sensitive languages. Differences in case have
different sematic means and usually correspond to different namespaces
(classes, constants, variables, etc).

>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?

The majority of C and Java code do just that. You need to change your
"strong belief".

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

You're not paying attention.

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