> Thank you. Yet another idiosincracy of English. > This (to my knowledge) cannot happen in Spanish, as we don't capitalize > 'Polish' or its equivalent.
This can happen in French though. > But you have to admit that it is pretty contrived [*], and if only > one of the two were presented to me, I would probably misread it. So many newspapers headlines are misread because of a missing accent or a missing comma… > But then, an ambiguous example can probably be constructed when it is > the first word in a sentence, and we clearly want no ambiguity in > programming languages. Something like "Smiths are bad people" (talking about the workers, or the people whose family name is Smith)? The problem I see with Unicode is that of accents. If I remember correctly, there are accented letters in Unicode, like "é" and then diacritics that combined with an "e" will return "é" too. This takes a good text editor to write code… As far as case sensitivity of identifiers is concerned, I don't care at all about this provided I have access to an unlimited pool of them. However easier or nicer it may be to have or not case sensitivity, I think this debate is similar to choosing the font of the presentation slides without having doing the research of that presentation=E2=80=A6 To me, it's fairly orthogonal to more important points of the design of the language. P! -- Français, English, 日本語, 한국어 _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
