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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Case distinction in var names
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Date: Sat, 3-Nov-84 19:37:01 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  3 19:37:01 1984
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This is a problem with the customer, not the language.  A programmer
who names two different variables "foo" and "Foo" should be fired at
once, for incompetence.  [The same applies if he names two different
programs "mail" and "Mail".  Grrr.]

When the two names are "foo" and "FOO", the situation is not so clear.
These two usages normally are *not* interchangeable in English, and
one can argue that they should be considered to be distinct.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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