Case sensitivity

[Tim Rowe]

Tim Churches wrote:

> David's use of quotes around object names raises another, moot,
> question: if keywords and names were made case-insensitive, should
> literal strings be made case-insensitive as well - for example, should
> 'max' == 'MAX' return True? I hope everyone agrees definitely not. I
> challenge anyone arguing in favour of case-insensitivity for Python to
> produce a succinct explanation for beginners of why names and keyword
> are case-insensitive and why literals are not.

Because TIM and Tim refer to the same person, but they're not written 
the same.

Though for what it's worth, I'm neither for case sensitivity nor case 
insensitivity.  For Python I'm for no change, for my ideal language I'm 
for two identifiers in the same namespace differing only by case being 
an error.

Tim
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> Of course, if literal string comparisons were case-insensitive, then
> that implies that all string comparisons should be case-insensitive.
> Follow that line of thinking a bit further and the fabric of the known
> Universe starts to unravel...
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