case sensitivity (was: Re: New Book: The School of Niklaus Wirth)

jthorn@galileo.thp.univie.ac.at (Jonathan Thornburg)
7 Nov 2000 13:04:33 -0500

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From: jthorn@galileo.thp.univie.ac.at (Jonathan Thornburg)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 7 Nov 2000 13:04:33 -0500
Organization: Universitaet Wien (Vienna, Austria) / Institut fuer Theoretische Physik
References: 00-11-037
Summary: examples where case --> semantics
Keywords: books, design

mikael@pobox.com writes:
> humans tend to recognize names that differ solely in case without problems


We've just wound up a long flamewar^Wheated discussion^Wthread on this
over in comp.arch; search on the subjects
      Subject: Re: RAD50 (was: Q: Why not (2^n)-bit?)
      Subject: case sensitivity in file names (was: Re: RAD50 (was: Q: Why not (2^n)-bit?))
in your favorite usenet archive to find it.


In article 00-11-037,
Martin Ward <Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
>(2) A mathematician would be very surprised to find that "n" and "N"
>are treated as the *same* symbol.


Another notable example comes in SI units: most of us consider a
milliwatt (mW) as different from a megawatt (MW).


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