Subject: Case sensitivity (was Conjugate is weird)
From: Andreas Eder
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:23:20 +0200
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
--
Wherever I lay my .emacs, there´s my $HOME.