Case-sensitivity: why -- or why not? (was Re: Damnation!)

[Johannes Nix]

Russell Wallace <rwallace at esatclear.ie> writes:

> It seems to me that the important argument in this context is "case
> insensitivity will break millions of lines of existing code, and perhaps
> split the user base if a significant number of existing users refuse to

It is a trivial task to convert case-sensitive identifiers in unique
case-insensitive identifiers in case of a name clash.

Johannes