Re: Re: Re: Re[2]: Re: class proposal

"Mark Hahn" <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:55:00 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.prothon.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Christian Tismer" <[email protected]> wrote

> > 1) Case sensitive identifiers. This is a C holdover. Many high level
languages
> >    - Pascal, Ada, PL/I - are case insensitive. Why not Prothon? Just
rename
> >    Object to root to remove the conflict with the object statement.
>
> This is not a trivial subject. I have my personal preferences,
> and I guess for 10 users, there are 15 preferences.
>
> Ignoring my ALGOL86 roots, I come from the Pascal-style languages.
> I always loved that case sensitivity was no issue.
> At the same time, I really *hated* that these language allowed
> me to write rpograms with different case than for instance the
> author of a module intended.

I would HATE to lose the ability to have "Widget" for the proto and "widget"
for the instance.