Re: Case sensitivity in programming languages.

Shelly wrote:
"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:-o2dnUSBY-LaCFbZnZ2dnUVZ_sudnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

But if you're never worked on a multi-programmer project in a case sensitive language you may not understand the benefits.


Jerry, I think you caught the real reason here. I'm disappointed at myself that I didn't think of it. It is the MULTI-programmer aspect that brings in the real need for enforcing conventions.

Shelly



Shelly,

Yes, it is much more important in multi-programmer projects.

For instance, when looking at someone else's code, I can tell that 'Employee' is a class object, while 'anEmployee' is an object of the Employee class, and employee[] is an array of Employee objects. And when everyone uses the same conventions, you have less chance of conflicts between different programmers.

And sure, I know you can add comments to explain the code. And I'm not at all against comments - I encourage their use. But at the same time I'm a big promoter of having the code document itself as much as possible, and conventions like these help.

Case sensitivity can really help with code clarity, if it's used properly and conventions are followed.

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