Re: case sensitivity

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From: Christopher Dollin
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1988 08:05

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"kasper@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Kasper Osterbye)" says:

|I disagree. Case sensitivity is always a drag. Someone always will use
|the TWO variables i and I, and I will get quite confused. 

But you don't object to the two names "ii", "ij"? Or "Payment_1" and 
"Payment_2"? Or using "i" ("x", "z", "a" ...) as anything other than a *very*
local name?

Anyone who uses both "i" and "I" in the same region of text (never mind scope!)
is inviting the same kinds of problem as any confusing use of names. The case
structure of the names has little to do with it.

[Hm, how about the names "i" and "eye"? or "x" and "eggs"? Good thing I never
really believed in the tellingbone test .......]



Regards,
Kers                                    | "Why Lisp if you can talk Poperly?"

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From: kers@otter.hple.hp.com (Christopher Dollin)
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Subject: Re: case sensitivity
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Date: 14 Mar 88 08:05:27 GMT
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