Yet Another Case Question

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Erik Max Francis wrote:

> Sure, people won't deliberately use bizarre choices of mixed case
> except to deliberately prove a point, but it seems undeniable that
> allowing case insensitivity _will_ result in different people using
> different capitalization conventions.  To use your example, some
> will write `maximumcolumns', some will write `maximumColumns', and
> some will write `MaximumColumns'.  This is, needless to say,
> obnoxious.  I don't think you can really argue against this point,
> since the case insensitive languages I've been exposed to one sees
> it over and over again. 

    	But what is the negative effect, since regardless of which 
convention they use you will be able to refer to the variable with 
whatever capitalization you please?  I don't see that this obnoxious at 
all.

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