Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!att!pegasus!ech From: ech@pegasus.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: extern "language" Message-ID: <2922@pegasus.ATT.COM> Date: 25 May 89 15:35:16 GMT References: Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA Lines: 21 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? In article <833@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> nevin1@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (nevin.j.liber) writes: >(IMHO) From a language point of view, it is more 'consistent' to have >this case-sensitive... From article , by cline@sunshine.ece.clarkson.edu (Marshall Cline): > I agree 100%. The same "wouldn't case insensitivity be nice" could be > applied to keywords, but the language design is the language design. Oh, be real. Serve the user -- in this case the programmer. Consistency in support of the priest-class that can remember the convention is worthless. Yes, I am fully ordained. =Ned Horvath=