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| Re: Spell checking identifiers 937-053-0959@kylheku.com (Kaz Kylheku) (2020-06-24) |
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| Re: Spell checking identifiers johann@myrkraverk.invalid (Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson) (2020-06-25) |
| Re: Spell checking identifiers johann@myrkraverk.invalid (Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson) (2020-06-25) |
| Re: Spell checking identifiers acolvin@efunct.com (mac) (2020-07-09) |
| Re: Spell checking identifiers tkoenig@netcologne.de (Thomas Koenig) (2020-07-10) |
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| From: | mac <acolvin@efunct.com> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Thu, 9 Jul 2020 16:07:45 -0000 (UTC) |
| Organization: | A noiseless patient Spider |
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| Posted-Date: | 09 Jul 2020 13:12:13 EDT |
> You might not want J1 and J_one in the same program.
Similarly, some ancient compiler (Euclid?) had case-insensitive lookup, but
required the same capitalization everywhere
This was much more important in the days of batch systems, where compilers
tried to "correct" your code, because it would be a day before you got
another chance. And because student programs couldn't do any damage.
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