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I find the fact that Guido was considering making Python case insensitive in 2000 very fascinating. 15 years later and case insensitivity is still viewed as bei
by dom96 11y ago
I find the fact that Guido was considering making Python case insensitive in 2000 very fascinating. 15 years later and case insensitivity is still viewed as being "wrong". I only know one "new" language that is brave enough to be case insensitive and that is Nim, funnily enough its syntax is very much inspired by Python.
- Scarblac 11y agoBy now I think case insensitivity is probably good (back then I don't think I did), but the idea of introducing it into an existing language, breaking much more than Python 3 eventually did doesn't sound great. And as an option? I can't remember what the actual proposal was, but having case insensitive code trying to use a case sensitive library sounds like lots of fun.
- renox 11y agoI don't care about Nim case insensitivity, but underscore insensitivity?? Breaking grep is a _very bad idea_.