On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:58:39 -0400, bearophile <[email protected]>
wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer:
How about we get rid of case-sensitivity, so people who like to use all
caps can have their say in how they call your functions. Does it make
any
sense?
Case-insensitive languages make sense. In many natural languages written
words usually mean the same thing regardless their case. In the same
way, the "hello" word written with a blue pen means the same thing as
"hello" written with a red pen. They are the same word. The same is true
if you write "HELLO" or "Hello" or "hello", case is seen as the color of
text, it doesn't change text meaning.
But programmers often use casing differences to use more than one word to
describe a symbol.
theResetButton vs. thereSetButtOn look like two different things to me
(one is a button to reset something, and the other, well I guess it might
be a chair?). Doesn't change the meaning to the compiler, but the human
reading it is confused. Same for omitting parentheses or including them
to call the same function.
-Steve
