Re: CamelCase (was: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest ...)

2014-03-01 Thread Tony Harminc
On 1 March 2014 00:12, Robert A. Rosenberg a...@rarpsl.com wrote: Making STUFF stuff Stuff sTuff ... have different meanings is not as fault-tolerant as it could be. OTOH: Polish and polish ARE not the same. Telling someone in the army to You should Polish your shoes so you will pass

CamelCase (was: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest ...)

2014-02-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2014-02-25, at 10:00, John Walker wrote: So, to respond to the one comment, it was ok for the Science guys to want mixed case things because that was what they were used to. Ok, I can buy that. Same rationale can be applied to the C programmers. Now, let's be fair, using the very

Re: CamelCase (was: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest ...)

2014-02-28 Thread Hobart Spitz
I think this discussion needs to distinguish clearly between case-sensitive (treating caps and lower case the same) and case-insensitive (treating the upper and lower case of the same character as different). Mixed-case could mean either, and is therefore unclear. IMHO, case-insensitivity is not

Re: CamelCase (was: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest ...)

2014-02-28 Thread Kirk Talman
IBM Mainframe Assembler List ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU wrote on 02/28/2014 11:18:33 AM: From: Hobart Spitz orexx...@gmail.com I think this discussion needs to distinguish clearly between case-sensitive (treating caps and lower case the same) and case-insensitive (treating the upper and

Re: CamelCase (was: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest ...)

2014-02-28 Thread John Gilmore
I should be be on John Walker's side if 'z/OS' were telling him that he may no longer write his routines in headlines. As it is, what he appears to be saying is that I must write mine in headlines too; and I am unsympathetic, even hostile to that notion. He is and should be free to continue what

Re: CamelCase (was: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest ...)

2014-02-28 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 11:18 -0500 on 02/28/2014, Hobart Spitz wrote about Re: CamelCase (was: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest ...): I think this discussion needs to distinguish clearly between case-sensitive (treating caps and lower case the same) and case-insensitive (treating the upper and lower case of the same

Re: CamelCase (was: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest ...)

2014-02-28 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 11:28 -0500 on 02/28/2014, Kirk Talman wrote about Re: CamelCase (was: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest ...): Making STUFF stuff Stuff sTuff ... have different meanings is not as fault-tolerant as it could be. OTOH: Polish and polish ARE not the same. Telling someone in the army to You should Polish