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

Mark Hahn wrote:
> "Christian Tismer" <[email protected]> wrote
...

>>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.

Sure. Every hacker hates to give up his sloppy manners,
but this is by no means good coding style. I have worked
for companies who enforced their programmers to avoid
these name clashes by their coding rules
(together with the rule to never use variables "i" and "l" :-)

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