Language change and code breaks (fwd)

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> That does bring up the subject of machine-generated symbols though.
    >> And case sensitivity in dictionaries. I use base52 [A-Za-z] encoded
    >> md5's in certain contexts. If I use those as keys, will it break?

    kosh> Losing case sensitivity in dictionaries would screw me pretty
    kosh> badly also.

I think case-sensitivity as we are discussing in this thread runs only to
identifier and attribute names, not the contents of strings, so while

    date = 1
    DATE += 1
    print Date

should print "2" by my understanding, 

    dict = {"date": 1,
            "DATE": 2,
            "Date": 3}

would create a dictionary of length 3.

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