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In article <2832@csli.STANFORD.EDU> kasper@csli.UUCP (Kasper Osterbye) writes:
>In a previous posting I said that I would like to be able to use both
>cases (upper and lower) in my writing and reading, but the compiler
>should not be able to tell the difference between i and I.
>
>I hereby retract from the scene, a bit wiser.


Don't retract so fast :-)!  Following this discussion, there seems to be
only two possibilities:

A)	Variables such as 'CaseVar' and 'casevar' should be considered the same.
	(Case-insensitive)

B)	Variables such as 'CaseVar' and 'casevar' should be considered distinct.
	(Case-sensitive)

There is a third possibility.  Here is my proposal:

C)	If two or more variables, such as 'CaseVar' and 'casevar', only
	differ with respect to case, only one of the variable declarations
	is allowed and the other declarations result in an error (or
	alternatively, the variables are consdered distinct but the second
	and subsequent declarations produce warnings).

This seems to fix the problems with case-sensitive and case-insensitive
languages.  Comments??


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