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Well his personal taste likely informed the design decision to use capitalization to confer some semantics for a variable.
by spacemanaki 14y ago
Well his personal taste likely informed the design decision to use capitalization to confer some semantics for a variable.
- tptacek 14y agoI'm not sure I see how capital letters make a language harder to syntax highlight.
- papsosouid 14y agoIt doesn't. But not using one form of visual identifier (colour) could motivate one to use another (case).
- spacemanaki 14y agoIt doesn't, and I wasn't arguing that... I was suggesting that if one were to prefer reading and writing code without highlighting, one might be more inclined to design a language such that capitalization carries some semantic weight. I'm just speculating here. I don't really have an opinion one way or the other, although I don't think anyone's an idiot for having an opinion about it, as the OP does.
- tptacek 14y agoThis makes a lot of sense. Sorry, I jumped the gun with my response.