Klaus,

	I generally disagree with case sensitivity, and really feel it's  
inappropriate in a language for children--but that's a damn good  
defense.<s>

	===BLake=== *whoops, "Blake"

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:32:10 -0800, Klaus D. Witzel  
<klaus.witzel at cobss.com> wrote:

> Hi Edgar,
>
> just form a compound from 2-3 single words, the result can be ambiguous  
> without word markers:
>
>   "thereareend", can you see 1) rear, 2) the, 3) there, 4) are?
>
> Other examples are easy to construct. The larger the vocabulary, the  
> larger the probability that catenations of just two words yields  
> ambiguity - in the eyes of the reader (user or maintainer of your  
> software).
>
> Without sensitivity you can also have word markers but also are free to  
> introduce as much confusion as language permits at this level. Some  
> examples found by googel:
>
> 	itemspacing --> item spacing vs. items pacing
>        menuselect --> menu select vs. menus elect
>        nodeemphasize --> no deemphasize vs. node emphasize
>        notequal --> not equal vs. note qual
>        notext --> no text vs. not ext
>        tabstop --> tab stop vs. tabs top
>        topage --> to page vs. top age
>
> /Klaus
>
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:06:49 +0100, Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene  
> <edgardec2001 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>
>> Why MOM should be different of mom ?
>>
>> Always think this is a not so good characteristic of Smalltalk.
>>
>> I like read some answers.
>>
>> Edgar
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