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h1. Why is it case/style insensitive?
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* Identifiers which only differ in case are bad style. If the programming language treats them the same the programmer needs to come up with with different names for different things.
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* Identifiers which only differ in case are bad style. If the programming language treats them the same the programmer needs to come up with different names for different things.
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* Case insensitivity is widely considered to be more user friendly. This holds for file systems, configuration files, and programming languages.
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* Many programming languages are case insensitive: Lisp, Basic, Pascal, Ada, Eiffel, Fortran. Since software for aircrafts and power plants has been written in Ada, it seems reasonable to assume that case insensitivity will not not destroy civilisation.
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* Many programming languages are case insensitive: Lisp, Basic, Pascal, Ada, Eiffel, Fortran. Since software for aircrafts and power plants has been written in Ada, it seems reasonable to assume that case insensitivity will not destroy civilisation.
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* Note that most people confuse case sensitivity with case consistency (which is indeed good style). However, case consistency is easier to achieve with case insensitivity and a properly configured IDE than with case sensitivity.
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h1. Where can I find code examples?
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