Re: case sensitivity

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From: Felix Lee
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1989 21:50

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Case sensitivity is useful.  For those opposed, I propose "case
tolerance":  if a case sensitive scan of the symbol table fails, do a
case insensitive scan and spit out a "wrong case" warning if it
succeeds.
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Felix Lee	flee@shire.cs.psu.edu	*!psuvax1!shire!flee

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Subject: Re: case sensitivity
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