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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