Patrick Dunford wrote: <snip>
I would argue that they *do* contain different meaings.But changing the capitalisation does not change the meaning of the word.
nick== small chip out of an object
NICK== (eg) National Institute of Crochet and Knitting
Nick== he's just this guy... y' know
Capitalisation *does* matter in English (or any human language that uses the Roman alphabet)
At the risk of a "yes it does, no it doesn't" argument, my point was that it *does* change the meaning of *what_is_written*
That is one of the important distinctions, and the other is that it's difficult to describe capitalisation in the spoken form.
But we are not discussing spoken form we are discussing written form.
I have to admit that when I came back "home" from programming in VB I did find it difficult to re-acclimatise to case sensitivity. But in any code that I write:
FILE *should* != file
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