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From: kasper@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Kasper Osterbye)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: case sensitivity
Message-ID: <2832@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 15 Mar 88 06:56:04 GMT
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Reply-To: kasper@csli.UUCP (Kasper Osterbye)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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In a previous posting I said that I would like to be able to use both
cases (upper and lower) in my writing and reading, but the compiler
should not be able to tell the difference between i and I. Several
people have given so good remarks to this that I feel convinced that
I was wrong. Propper use of ``cased''-names might be a sure way to
introduce readability, and my example of using I and i was badly picked,
especially I got convinced by the example of "cntl","cntrl","contrl".
Confusion of names are not limited to cases, and as long as we do not
have a way to let the compiler warn us about the "control" case, I
fell now that we must make the best of the "case". Also some Modula
programs are more readable because of the casing.

"stack" of type Stack, where "stack" are used locally, and no other
variables of type "stack" are used in the immidiate surroundings.

I hereby retract from the scene, a bit wiser.

regards,

Kasper