About case sensitive
Klaus D. Witzel
klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Sat Nov 26 08:09:43 UTC 2005
Blake,
I thank you for your kind response.
With regards to your question who ops ;) all I knew about that fertility
deity before you asked was that Ops (Opis) was the husband of Saturn but
wikipedia has a bit more background:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ops
/Klaus
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:40:02 +0100, Blake <blake at kingdomrpg.com> wrote:
> 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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