was: What's in a name?, now: caseless: Try it, you might like it.

[Martijn Faassen]

Shae Erisson <shapr at uab.edu> wrote:
> The case-sensitive issue just might be the same as the whitespace issue.
> Python's unconvential approach works quite well for me in whitespace,
> I'm willing to give another unconvential approach a chance at least.

In fact, the case-sensitive issue is the exact opposite as the whitespace
issue. The use of whitespace in Python makes indentation a lot more
consistently written, which aids readability. Case-insensitivity would
allow us to case-spell inconsistency, which detracts from readability.
Yes, we're able to read different case-spellings, but it's *harder*,
just like reading through differently indented code can be harder. And
code is read more often than it's written, so this is pretty important.

Regards,

Martijn
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