Case sensitivity

Tim Rowe tim at remove_if_not_spam.digitig.co.uk
Fri Feb 21 11:35:04 EST 2003


> I was with him then, I'm still with him, but he's right: we, the
> Python community, seem to have accumulated too many people with
> their main background in case-sensitive languages (C/C++/Perl/
> Java/...) rather than case-insensitive ones (Pascal/Eiffel/VB...)
> for case insensitivity to ever get a "fair hearing".  Pity:-(.

But he's /against/ case insensitivity as I read it -- he /would/ mind if 
x and X mean the same thing!





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