case sensitivity redux (was Re: Language change and code breaks)

[Skip Montanaro]

    Bengt> Most of us have lots to be thankful for, clearly. Shifting case
    Bengt> is also an extra finger dexterity exercise, which is difficult
    Bengt> for some with good sight but other impairments.

Let's assume you have a desterity problem that makes it hard to press the
shift key while hitting other keys on the keyboard.  No problem, all your
identifiers will be lower case.  You'll probably want to separate words in
identifiers with underscores, however, and on American keyboards at least,
that requires you to use the shift key.  Someone with an impairment such as
you suggest would have to either have a special keyboard (perhaps special
enough to be a voice recognition system) or work on a system that allows
them to remap their keyboards as you can do with X/xmodmap, so they could
move the underscore into an unshifted position.

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