On 11/05/13 06:17, Alan Gauld wrote:
Pascal is still case agnostic and in that community its often seen as a benefit since it avoids a whole class of "error" - when you type the case of a word wrongly...
Interesting that you say that. Just the other week I was reading a page somewhere talking about some Pascal compiler, and it made a comment that "by popular request" the next version would allow case sensitive variables. Personally, I don't understand how moderately intelligent English-speaking people can apparently have so much trouble with capitalization. It's very simple: capitalization is the difference between: "I helped my Uncle Jack off a horse." and "I helped my uncle jack off a horse." Case sensitivity really helps when programming too. For example, the usual convention is that classes have an initial capital letter. (Although built-in classes tend to break this convention, mostly for pragmatic reasons.) Instances tend to be lower case. So for example I have code that looks like this: history = History() # actual code, copied from one of my modules and to anyone who understands the convention, it is obvious: I take a History class, create an instance, and call it history. There is no conflict between the two, since they differ in case. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
