Case insensitivity

Quinn Dunkan quinn at hork.ugcs.caltech.edu
Fri Jul 27 03:23:58 EDT 2001


On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 02:05:06 GMT, Courageous <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>I don't understand this assertion, however.  What keeps you from continuing to
>>use vim, ed, windows notepad, whatever, in this case?  The language is exactly
>>the same.
>
>Because when identifier and someone else writes IdEnTIFIER, I want
>to kill them Actually, I'd like to kill them for changing the case at all.

But if the language is the same, their editor would warn them about the case
mismatch, and the code would crash, just like yours would.  It would be just
like your editor, only yours won't warn about those things.



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