On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Don Blaheta <[email protected]> wrote: > A student of mine is having trouble keeping track of when to use capital > vs lowercase letters---a common problem I've seen before, with any intro > language---and in particular, keeps trying to write True and False > instead of true and false.
My understanding is that convention is to capitalize at the beginning of a sentence or when using a proper name. Among the tech savvy, using all capital letters is interpreted as shouting. Lawyers seem to think that extremely important sentences should be written in all capital letters. Unfortunately, it seems that many or most computer languages completely ignore the existing common conventions. > This isn't just a strange choice, it runs *precisely counter* to the > *main stated goal* of the teaching languages, to exclude from the > language anything that the students might accidentally type, that would > be valid in the full language but was "not what they meant" and not > something that they yet knew to avoid. This argument appears to hold no weight with implementors of case-sensitive languages. -- ~jrm _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
