Subject: Case sensitivity (was Conjugate is weird)
From: James Amundson
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 10:27:21 -0500
On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 09:33, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> I'll separate the answers by topic.
>
> > I'm curious: do you plan to make Maxima 6.0 all case
> > sensitive or all case insensitive?
>
> I'm not working on that area, but when we discussed this a while ago, I
> believe the conclusion was that Maxima should be case-insensitive, but
> *preserve* case.
The last case discussion happened while I was in the throes of trying to
produce the windows package, so I didn't participate. I was planning to
reopen the issue before we make any final decisions. I have very strong
opinions about case sensitivity, but I have yet to express them...
--Jim