Re: case-sensitivity

Ray Dillinger <bear@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
I don't think I'm ready to conduct the straw poll myself, but
here's my (somewhat paradoxical) answer to it. For my
*personal* comfort, I'd prefer case-insensitivity for the
characters A-Z(and a-z) ONLY. But I'd never recommend that
as a standard, because it's culturecentric against those
people whose "first and most familiar" alphabet isn't the
roman alphabet.

The English & Latin alphabets.

I don't know any other roman language with no accent.

boîte -> BOîTE, or BOÎTE -> boÎte are unfortunate.

So now you may want to extend it to ISO-8859-1, but then you'll hit ß.

For the standard, I think I'd recommend case-sensitivity,
just because I don't want to have to figure out whether
identifiers in a character set I'm unfamiliar with are
"the same" identifier under case mapping rules I don't
know.

Indeed it's the best.


Otherwise (if case-insensitivity is preserved) then if I
ever work with code that has non-ascii identifiers, I'm
going to have to write a "code sanitizer" that smashes
case deliberately in order to make all identifiers that
are *logically* the same *look* the same.

Some Pascal Pretty Printers did that.

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