Patrick Dunford wrote: <snip>
But changing the capitalisation does not change the meaning of the word.
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*
Big risk :) The change of meaning is subtle to the extent that changed capitalisation only involves minor syntactical distinction, not to the same extent as a compiler that will refuse to compile an application.
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.
Programming languages are written down, but in instructional situations the written form can be used.
