Re: Re: Re: Re[2]: Re: class proposal
"Mark Hahn" <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:55:00 -0700
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"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.