[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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