Posted by Tony Marston on 05/16/06 10:48

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Tony Marston wrote:
>> All the while people like you keep harping on about how "politically
>> correct" it is to introduce even more unnecessary case-sensitivity into
>> computer languages I will keep responding with an alternative view. Case
>> sensitivity does not solve any problems, therefore it is an unwanted
>> solution.
>>
>
> I never said anything about "politically correct". I pointed out some
> real advantages to having case sensitivity - advantages used by millions
> of programmers world-wide.

What you are saying is that just because YOU use case-sensitivity in a
particular way in want the rest of the world to do exactly the same, and not
only that you want the language changed in such a way that other choices are
impossible.

> And here's tony, still a stubborn mule and clinging to th dark ages,
> refusing to see advantages because he doesn't want to.
>
> You really are an ass.

That's just your opinion. My opinion is that being able to create variables
such as $foo, $Foo and $FOO which actually mean DIFFERENT things is a bad
idea as it be confusing and lead to a maintenance nightmare. If that is the
case then the language should not allow it. It is the prospect of
maintenance nightmares, of allowing programmers to "shoot themselves in the
foot", which caused the GOTO verb never to be implemented in PHP and its
proposed introduction by those who think it is "clever" to be resisted.

Case-sensitivity never solved any problem, so why is it a solution?

--
Tony Marston

http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org

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