Case sensitivity

Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de) me at privacy.net
Sun Feb 23 21:45:46 EST 2003


Alex Martelli wrote:
> So introduce a beginner to the excellent and very useful
> module mx.DateTime and explain to him, or her, how and
> why he or she needs to memorize (or continuosly check or
> try) that the functions named (e.g.) 'today', 'localtime',
> or 'add_century' MUST be lowercase, while (e.g.) functions
> 'TimeFrom' and 'Age' and 'Time' MUST be mixed-case.  Pah.

That's a problem with the design of the mx.DateTime module,
not with the concept of case-sensitivity.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg





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