Case sensitivity/insensitivity

[Bjorn Pettersen]

Will Rose wrote:
> 
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> 
> For a single data point, I'm English (tho' German was my first language,
> which spoils the 'statistics' a bit).  I don't think case-sensitive/
> insensitive varies with nationality; I've run across similar arguments
> in file-naming contexts (eg. Unix case-sensitive/case-preserving, and
> Microsoft long filenames case-insensitive/case-preserving).  Some
> people just do see the tokens 'token' and 'Token' as being identical,
> and are very irate if their behaviour differs; others, like me, see
> them as different and hate the additional complexity of trying to
> memorise possible matches.  (A bit like the 6-character limit on old
> linkers...).  I don't know why people have these two different approaches,
> but it seems to be something fundamental in their use of language.

This brings up another interesting point... I'm assuming the subjects
from the Alice project/research would also prefer:

   'token' == 'Token'

to return true.  Perhaps we could add something like:

   a = b         # they're pretty similar
   a == b        # they're the same modulo case
   a === b       # they're the same including case
   a ==== b      # same meaning as current 'is' for consistency

add-<wink>s-until-you're-confident-I'm-joking'ly y'rs
-- bjorn