Modula-2 Case of the Reserved Word

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From: Anthon 'Amiga' Pang
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 1990 19:08

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I really like Modula-2, and the environment on my Amiga is really wonderful,
but the greatest nit I have with the language is its need for reserved words
to be capitalized (eg IF, THEN, END, WHILE, MODULE, IMPLEMENTATION...).

Could someone respond with a summary of the proposed "standard" ?
I'm hoping keywords are accepted even in lower case.  If not, does anyone
know of a good/reliable/fast M2 preprocessor that'll convert keywords that
appear in lower case to upper case ?  Thanks in advance.

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From: apang@undergrad.cs.ubc.ca (Anthon 'Amiga' Pang)
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Subject: Modula-2 Case of the Reserved Word
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Date: 2 Mar 90 19:08:52 GMT
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