Case sensitivity

[Tim Hochberg]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> Terry Reedy wrote:
[SNIP]
>>and Bar, BAr, bAr, bAR, baR, and  BaR.  For some reason, seeing that
>>makes me want to screem.  I think our brains really are wired
>>differently in this area.
> 
> 
> This is quite possible.  I've long known my intellectual bent is strongly
> verbal as opposed to visual, with an imbalance between the two that
> is apparently way more pronounced than the norm.  But a simple smart
> editor can fix your complaint most easily, while the displeasure _I_ feel in
> having x and X be different names isn't so easily fixed;-).

Are you sure? Many of the python editors (PythonWin comes to mind) do 
name completion on items in modules and objects. From this it seems like 
a very short step to an editor that will fix the case of names that you 
type in (querying you if there were multiple options). It certainly 
could be done in less time than has been collectively spent of this 
discussion.

-tim

P.S. I'm with Terry; mismatched case gives me hives. I could deal with a 
case preserving language where variables that differed only in case were 
outlawed (which I believe is what was under consideration when Guido 
thought about this), but case preserving and ignoring just gives me the 
creeps.