Case insensitivity

[Arthur]

[alexl]

>But don't hope anybody who DOES use new things often, teach often, and have
verbal rather than visual mental >orientation, will let you proclaim that is
"good" without challenging your arguments.

Personally, I have never expressed an opinion about case sensitivity being
good.

I express the same opinion you express, I guess, just put differently.  "We
are all beginners".

That the issue is the same, and as significant (or insignificant) for Anna
and as for Alex - or, if not, its not an issue of programming experience.
Some seem to find case sensitivity giving added visual clues, some
apparently find it increases ambiguity.  For those who are in category 1
*and* starting out, case sensitivity is probably a learning aid, in category
2, a barrier.

But if we are all beginners, in the sense you put it, why do you need to
speak on behalf of a particular kind of beginner.  It always seemed to me
that this was an attemept to bring some emotional clout to the argument. But
you now quite well you are only saying the same thing again, in another way.
Just adding a polemicists spin.

You started out by saying that you agreed with Guido.  You refuse to even
consider the possibility that Guido backed off when presented with the best
evidence that he could hope to get on the subject, *as it effected
beginners*, and it satisfied him that he is not penalizing beginners *as a
class*, by remaining with case sensitivity in Python 3000 (which we all
understood need not be backward compatible).

Satisifed with that, presumably he returned to whatever instinct or
intutition that might have been at work when he designed Python as case
sensitive out of the box.

Or not.  I suspect you talk to him off line more than I do.

Art