Re: Case Sensitive, Multiline Comments
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Re: Case Sensitive, Multiline Comments

From: Brian van den Broek <bvande@po-box.mcgill.ca>
Date: Fri May 27 2005 - 15:58:50 CEST



Duncan Booth said unto the world upon 2005-05-27 04:24:



<snip>



> There are arguments that, especially for beginners, case sensitivity 


> introduces an extra level of complexity, but the cost of losing this 


> complexity would be to make Python a poor relation amongst programming 


> languages.



Well, this is just one man's anecdote, but Python was my first 


language since some BASIC many moons ago, and the case sensitivity 


neither got in my way, nor felt complex. Perhaps Python beginners with 


background in case insensitive languages do experience it differently.



At any rate, since the sequence of characters 'somename' and 


'SomeName' are different sequences, treating them as different names 


strikes me as the obviously right thing to do.



Best to all,



Brian vdB


Received on Thu Sep 29 16:15:00 2005