Language change and code breaks

[Paul Boddie]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote in message news:<cpofq9a858.fsf at cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com>...
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> You would be very surprised if email to JKnapka at EarthLink.Net was sent
> to a different user than email to jknapka at earthlink.net.  There are

I'm fairly sure that I don't get personal e-mails (going via my
particular mail provider) when the capitalisation of parts of my
address is changed. Not that I regard this as desirable, but I no
longer regard it as surprising.

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> But never mind, I'm giving up on making *Python* case-insensitive.
> The hostility of the user community is frightening.

And I never even got to say my piece! ;-)

Just think of PythonLabs as "the Romans" and the community as the
different "revolutionary factions". :-)

Paul