@Kevin I apologize for the delayed response. I didn't know that anyone had replied until last night. (thanks, Jacques)
When teaching a language, it is easier to teach a language that is case insensitive. It lets students concentrate on the language programming structures, data structures, keywords, and other features. The students can get to correct executions quicker. Scripting languages are not generally case sensitive. There are even compiled languages (Pascal/Delphi, VB, Fortran, etc.) that are not case sensitive. I realize that I'm coming into Julia after much work has been done on the compiler and that teaching is a low-priority metric. There might even be a work-around in the Julia Studio (or other) editor, where all declared variable instances in the code are replaced with the case of the definition. Mark On Monday, February 17, 2014 11:23:41 AM UTC-5, Kevin Squire wrote: > > Pretty disruptive. > > I'm curious why you would want such a feature? Are there other languages > which have this? How would it make your job easier? > > I'm pretty sure this won't ever happen. To me this sounds like a rather > bad idea, but I'm curious about your reasoning. > > Cheers! > Kevin > > On Monday, February 17, 2014, aikimark1955 <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > >> As a software instructor, I would like an option to have the language >> parse in a case-insensitive manner. >> >> How disruptive would such a change be? >> >> Mark Hutchinson >> Durham, NC >> >
