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From: ddb@ns.network.com (David Dyer-Bennet)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Just Wondering
Message-ID: <1316@ns.network.com>
Date: 24 Apr 89 21:19:58 GMT
References: <13159@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <10088@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1126@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov> <10095@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet)
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In article <10095@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
:No, not having different cases map onto the same object DOES make
:the code more readable.  Otherwise you would have to constantly be
:mentally mapping what you were reading into monocase, in effect.

Which we've been trained to do by 12 years or so of schooling.  I still
think it's a bad idea to fight it.


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