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From: nick@sw.stratus.com (Nicolas Tamburri)
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Subject: Re: Forth style
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Date: 20 May 91 16:02:14 GMT
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In Article 4829 Mitch.Bradley@ENG.SUN.COM writes:
> [Lots of capitalization background deleted...]
> [Conclusion:]
> I am certain of one thing: A programmer who creates 2 different names
> that differ only in capitalization is asking for trouble, even if the
> system is case sensitive.

Excuse me for stating the obvious here, (maybe that's why you didn't
state it Mitch.) I would think that the overwhelming reason to not play
games with case sensitive names is that it makes for very unportable
code. Some systems honor case sensitivity, others don't and I've seen
one that lets you type a defining name in any case, but stores it in
the definition header in upper case only.

I don't know about anybody else in this group,  but I care a great deal
about portability.  :-)

							/nt

nick@kyron.sw.stratus.com