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From: nevin1@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (nevin.j.liber)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: extern "language"
Message-ID: <833@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 17 May 89 16:49:23 GMT
References: <1989May5.172915.20820@utzoo.uucp> <1000011@hpclscu.HP.COM>
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In article <1000011@hpclscu.HP.COM> shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) writes:

>Personally, I think that it should be case-insensitive. Many people spell
>Fortran, Pascal and Ada with different cases. Rather than make people
>memorize the "party-line" spellings, why not recognize them in any case?

(IMHO) From a language point of view, it is more 'consistent' to have
this case-sensitive.    In the extern "language", "language" is
technically a string constant, and it should obey the rules for string
constants.  If your particular compiler wishes to ignore case, so be
it; it shouldn't be part of the language spec.
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