[Swift-user] Re: swift script calling procedure
Michael Wilde
wilde at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Aug 1 06:37:31 CDT 2008
I vote in favor of case sensitivity.
On 8/1/08 2:12 AM, Ben Clifford wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Michael Wilde wrote:
>
>> Perhaps the code he tried was wrong or never worked, or perhaps the case of
>> the function or the case checking rules changed between the time this last
>> worked and now.
>
> The checking rules are definitely stronger than they were before - this is
> likely from Milena's checks.
>
> Whether Swift should be case sensitive on identifiers seems poorly
> defined; karajan will take either case, but the XML-related history would
> suggest that case should be significiant (specifically a QName is case
> sensitive).
>
> I'm not terribly fussed either way (though I'd probably go for case
> sensitivity to be more C/Java-like) but I think it would be good to be
> defined more than as accidents of the compile-time and runtime layer.
>
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