Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> > I thought I was clear enough.  I consider "foobar", *foobar*, /foobar/,
>  Foobar,
> > FooBar, FOOBAR to be all the same.  It's still a foobar like any other.
> ..
>
> You assert this without justification.
>
> Maybe you mean that you simply disagree with the merit of the idea.

Yes.  I can certainly see the value of having different identifiers binded to
the same word under different graphisms, from a practical standpoint, but still
do not agree with it.

> That's fine. But you phrase it as if there's actually a good reason why
> the idea needn't be considered other than your personal preference.

It's not mine alone.  The Pascal and Lisp languages have long supported this
notion.

Besides, case-sensitiveness is already bad enough, but at least most editors
support it.  I'm guessing your proposal would not play nice with notepad
folks...

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