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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: case sensitivity
Message-ID: <2632@scolex.sco.COM>
Date: 2 May 89 18:04:36 GMT
References: <13159@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <1989Apr21.194615.5344@utzoo.uucp> <1320@ns.network.com> <871@twwells.uucp> <1331@ns.network.com>
Reply-To: seanf@scolex.UUCP (Sean Fagan)
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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In article <1331@ns.network.com> ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet) writes:
>But in practice nobody gets particularly bent out of shape if somebody writes
>"Well, then we won't have the blasted thing done until august, I guess."
>The formal convention is there, but it doesn't seem to be what people use
>for figuring out the meaning of the sentence.

Maybe, but consider:

	"We dropped a stick of dynamite down the pole and *whammo*!"

versus
	"We dropped a stick of dynamite down the Pole and *whammo*!"

One is likely to get you cited for vanalism, the other for murder.

See what difference a little punctuation can make?

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