> You seem stuck on this capitalization thing.

You seem to forget that this thread started on a capitalization issue. You also 
seem to assume that my alleged fixation affects the way others code. You might 
note that of the three error issues I listed, capitalization was last - why did 
you single it out?

> I’ve never had such a problem,

K3wl. What about code written by others.



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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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Subject: Re: Friday Follies/Why won't this work?/TSO Rant #387

Metz wrote:

>Well, I've only been using REXX for 35 years. The problems that I have seen 
>from not quoting words have been few and far between, not nearly as many as, 
>e.g., problems related to continuation, omitting a period in a stem, incorrect 
>capitalization in a string literal.



You seem stuck on this capitalization thing. I’ve never had such a problem, 
perhaps because I capitalize literals as needed. I’d never assume that mixed 
case in a literal is OK unless it’s deliberate, no matter the environment. Part 
of my Rexx Programming Style presentation, given at SHARE many times! 😊



I have seen nasty bugs from not quoting literals, not to mention the 
performance hit.


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