case sensitivity and XML

Fredrik Lundh effbot at telia.com
Tue May 23 11:48:19 EDT 2000


Randall Hopper <aa8vb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Reading BASIC and Pascal code for several years taught me (among other
> things) that case insensitivity isn't the better way.
> 
> whY do WE Have RULES fOR capiTALIZation IN lANGUAGES?  Because it makes
> them easier to read and comprehend.

so why not enforce these rules, just like we're enforcing the
indentation rules:

    >>> class foo:
    SyntaxError: Class name should be Foo

(if not else, that should make martijn happy, right? ;-)

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