Case sensitivity (was Conjugate is weird)



Raymond Toy writes:
 > 
 > I personally prefer case insensitive.  But I must be unusual in this
 > regard because even in languages that ARE case sensitive, I rarely use
 > that feature.  It's hard to pronounce case-sensitive names and it's
 > equally hard to decide how to capitalize long names that are
 > abbreviated in some way.

So am I. I really dislike the C++ and java abominations like
'DoWhatIMean'.
The Common Lisp way is ok for me.


 > I guess I'm also a minimalist here.  I don't want a spelling
 > corrector.  DWIM (do what I mean) never works well enough for me.  I
 > want a read-my-mind-and-dwim system. :-)

DWIM actually seldom does what I really mean, so it is not a win for
me! Others may differ.


 > C Y also had a comment one generating something better than "not
 > enough args".  I don't like those either because it's hard to do.
 > It's easy enough for the user to do "describe(integrate)" to figure
 > out what the args are.

Right. I second that.

'Andreas
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