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

[François Pinard]

akuchlin at mems-exchange.org (Andrew M. Kuchling) writes:

> Writing all the keywords in uppercase made program structure, as opposed
> to lowercase variable names, leap out at you.  Syntax colouring without
> colour, in a way.

I quite understand.  Nowadays, best would be to leave automatic upper casing,
at display time only, being an editor feature, and leave the language alone.

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard