Re: Case sensitivity

vandyswa wrote:
> [...]
>
> So I would propose that Forth move towards lower case standard control
> structure words, and case sensitivity. A standard transitional
> facility to accept the upper case counterparts (but not, for instance,
> mixed case variations) would be required. ForthOS uses lower case
> words with case sensitivity. Rather than support the upper case words
> directly, I have a UNIX sed (stream editor) script which I apply to
> source I wish to import.

Hummn! It's a fairly common convention around here to write
control structure words (IF, THEN, BEGIN, EXIT, etc.) in upper
case, and most of the rest in lower case, which nicely
emphasizes the logical flow. And there are other types of words
that can benefit from upper case emphasis.

But nobody wants to force such conventions on other people,
which works when the underlying system is caseless.

-- David
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