(Subject changed; "Re: ...Digest..." is ambiguous and nonsensical.)
On Dec 22, 2011, at 14:14, Steve Comstock wrote: > On 12/22/2011 1:02 PM, John Walker wrote: >> Mixed case is crapola that comes >> from the PC side. > > Wrong. Several human factors studies have shown mixed > case to be more readable. (Exception, to my mind, there > are some characters, in some fonts, where visual confusion > can arise (e.g.: lower case 'el' versus number 'one')). > I would distrust any such study. How did the experimenters find a control group free experiential bias. But perhaps a description of the protocol would allay my discomfort. > Mixed case is not crapola, nor is it 'PC'. I write all > my code in mixed case these days, even REXX and CLIST > can be mixed case. > Many years ago, I used "end" (sic) in a CLIST. This resulted in the error message, "UNRECOGNIZED COMMAND 'END'" (sic, but not verbatim). Go figger. An error message should never so obfuscate the essence of the problem being reported. Perhaps CLIST nowadays is better. I'm scarcely motivated to repeat the experiment -- to do so I'd be compelled to write a CLIST. -- gil
