Subject: Case sensitivity (was Conjugate is weird)
From: Andreas Eder
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 21:57:12 +0200
Barton Willis writes:
> Users should be able to choose their own style for identifiers
> (TheExtrapolatedLength or the_extrapolated_length),
> but it would be a mistake to allow both styles in the core Maxima
> system. And yes, for anybody that wants to be
> perverse, I'd make ThEExTRApolatedlEnGTH and TheExtrapolatedLength be
> different Maxima identifiers.
>
> I vote for demanding that core Maxima identifiers (function names, option
> variables, etc) be lower case with
> underscores for word separators; I can type this style of identifier
> faster than mixed case ones.
Please, don't do that. I looks so decidedly unlispy (more like windows
crap). Why not the-extrapolated-length? That's easier to type - and
easier on the eyes!
'Andreas
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