Case Sensitivity: Survey Results

[Martijn Faassen]

Neat survey; of course I also like it as it's similar to my own intuitions. :)
  
Sheila King <sheila at spamcop.net> wrote:
[snip]
> Perhaps, if one were designing a language from scratch (which is no
> longer the case with Python), it would be reasonable to adopt
> case-insensitivity. It seems there is little benefit to be derived from
> case-sensitivity (although some respondents felt that precision in
> approach and thinking, richness in language and naming choices, plus
> compiler efficiency made sensitivity preferable). So, in the interest of
> generating fewer error messages, insensitivity may be preferable.

There's one other potential benefit of case-sensitivity in a language,
which would be case-consistency; just like indentation-sensitivity in
Python results in indentation-consistency.

Anyway, I don't want to start an entire case sensitivity thread again
in response to this, so I shouldn't have written this anwer, perhaps. :)
 
Thanks for the survey, that's useful input into the whole discussion.

Regards,

Martijn
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