>. The advantage of a case- > insensitive language is that when we are taught to read, we > are taught that, for > example, "f" and "F" are the same letter. Eventually we > learn that.
I have had problems with that argument. We learn that they are the same letter, *different cases*. And we learn that there is significance to different cases, and there is nothing new to learn, IMO, in learning that that may be so in the context of programming as well. They *are* pronounced the same. I happen to appreciate the visual clues that case-sensitivty provides. Others find difficulty with the oral ambiguity. My theory is that this is largely how this issue cuts, the visually inclined versus the orally inclined. Someone loses. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
