Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!pingel From: pingel@daimi.aau.dk (S|ren Pingel Dalsgaard) Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Why can't we have ... ? Date: 21 Sep 1994 13:23:14 GMT Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University Lines: 22 Message-ID: <35pc42$5ui@belfort.daimi.aau.dk> References: <35j8ki$3ld@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: angers.daimi.aau.dk Thus spake kurt@Data-IO.COM (Kurt Guntheroth): >Case sensitive identifiers should not be a compiler option, because it will >lead to incompatible BETA programs. >A reason *not* to make variables case sensitive is if any of them get mapped >directly to filenames, because some filing systems are not case sensitive. >I have to say I like case sensitivity. I Like case sensitivity too, but perhaps a BETA compiler option would warn the user if a symbol is used with different capitalizations. Thus room and Room would be the same symbol but generate a warning if beta is invoked with --warn-if-wrong-capitalization. How about that for a change? /Soren -- Soren Pingel Dalsgaard, Computer Science Department )\._..--....,---, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 116, DK-8000 Aarhus /, _.. \ _.. ,`._ ,. DENMARK, email:pingel@daimi.aau.dk, ph:+45 89423284`._.-(___.'..(___.'`-.;.'