Yet Another Case Question

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

rzed wrote:
> The case-insensitive group would say that if it *is*
> beneficial, it can *still* exist in a case-insensitive environment.
> True enough, but it's not enforced, and there is nothing to prevent
> anyone, for whatever reason, from defying the convention. To the
> computer, it doesn't matter; to the code's reader, it does.

There's a parallel here with the issue of delimiters
vs. indentation. One of the arguments against using
delimiters for program structure is that you end up
with different cues being used by humans and computers
to understand the same piece of code. Perhaps something
similar applies to case-[in]sensitivity?

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