case-sensitivity

SBrunning at trisystems.co.uk SBrunning at trisystems.co.uk
Thu Nov 13 10:16:17 EST 2003


> From:	Douglas Alan [SMTP:nessus at mit.edu]
> 
> I agree with Alex.  Case sensitivity is evil!  When color monitors
> started becoming common, I began to worry that programming languages
> would come to allow you to have blue variable names, and red and green
> variables names, and they would all be different.  Or maybe even
> variable names in mixed color!  Then in mixed color and font.  I
> better be quiet now, lest I give anyone ideas.
 
Too late!

http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/archives/000666.html

BTW, some of the other ideas expressed in JSR-666 might be applicable to
Python. I'm thinking particularly of "import *".

;-)

Cheers,
Simon Brunning.




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