case-sensitivity

[Douglas Alan]

Jarek Zgoda <jzgoda at gazeta.usun.pl> writes:

> Douglas Alan <nessus at mit.edu> pisze:

>>>> I agree with Alex.  Case sensitivity is evil!

>>> I'd go even further : identifiers longer than 6 characters are evil.

>> I assume you are joking?

> Just think about typing all those identifiers... 

In the ol' days it was actually a semi-plausible argument that you
shouldn't make your identifies too long because you'd be too likely to
make a mistake when typing them.

Thank goodness for M-/ in Emacs. 

|>oug