On 11/05/13 07:51, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Pascal is still case agnostic and in that community its often seen as a benefit...
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.
Yes, I think that more and more people are coming to Pascal from non Pascal backgrounds. When you've been used to case sensitive languages like C, Java, etc, then Pascal and COBOL seem arecane. But as someone who started life in Pascal (Traditional Basic doesn't count! :-) before moving to C, I made a huge number of case based errors in the early days.
But nowadays I wouldn't like to be without the flexibility of using mixed case such as:
history = History() # actual code, copied from one of my modules
And this is one of the areas where I don't personally like Python's PEP8 naming conventions... -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
