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From: kurt@Data-IO.COM (Kurt Guntheroth)
Subject: Re: Why can't we have ... ?
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 18:32:17 GMT
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In article <wpp.779983543@marie> wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Kai Petzke) writes:
>>aas@velociraptor.nr.no (Gisle Aas) writes:
>
>>>15) Case sensitive identifiers.
>
>>I personally find case sensitive identifiers to be a nuisance,
>>but if most people prefer identifiers to be case sensitive, it is easy
>>to change the compiler!
>
>Make it an compiler option at least.

Case sensitive identifiers should not be a compiler option, because it will
lead to incompatible BETA programs.

A reason *not* to make variables case sensitive is if any of them get mapped
directly to filenames, because some filing systems are not case sensitive.

I have to say I like case sensitivity.