On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 23:17 -0600, Grant Rettke wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Brian Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thomas Lord <[email protected]> says: > >>The more serious case, perhaps, is that > >>case sensitivity is far, far *simpler* both > >>technically and politically. > >> > >>Is the issue all that important, beyond that > >>consideration? > > > > Well, it is to me, and I guess maybe some other people. > > In popular case-sensitive languages today like Java and C#, the > majority of programmers make a point never to use case alone to > distinguish between variables due to the obvious errors that doing so > often introduce. Case-sensitivity is a burden to the programmer that > should be solved by the language.
Why solve that by the language? Why not solve in the IDE and program analysis tools, instead? -t > > _______________________________________________ > r6rs-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
