[PATCH] A compromise on case

Neel Krishnaswami neelk at brick.cswv.com
Tue May 23 21:16:26 EDT 2000


Will Ware <wware at world.std.com> wrote:
> Nick Mathewson (nickm at mit.edu) wrote:
> >     >>> print MAP(square, [1,2,3])
> >     NameError: No such name as 'MAP'.  Perhaps you meant 'map'?
> >     >>> print string.JOIN(['a', 'b', 'c'])
> >     AttributeError: JOIN.  Perhaps you meant 'join'?
> 
> This is definitely the coolest most ingenious thing I've seen all day,
> maybe all week. The whole case-sensitivity thread was staring to grate
> on my retinae, but this makes it all worthwhile.

This does call for some kudos -- Nick has advanced the discussion
further than 300 posts could.


Neel



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