Language change and code breaks
Paul Boddie
paul at boddie.net
Wed Jul 25 06:10:04 EDT 2001
Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote in message news:<cpofq9a858.fsf at cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com>...
>
> You would be very surprised if email to JKnapka at EarthLink.Net was sent
> to a different user than email to jknapka at earthlink.net. There are
I'm fairly sure that I don't get personal e-mails (going via my
particular mail provider) when the capitalisation of parts of my
address is changed. Not that I regard this as desirable, but I no
longer regard it as surprising.
[...]
> But never mind, I'm giving up on making *Python* case-insensitive.
> The hostility of the user community is frightening.
And I never even got to say my piece! ;-)
Just think of PythonLabs as "the Romans" and the community as the
different "revolutionary factions". :-)
Paul
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