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From gpc-owner@gnu.de Sun Jan 12 23:07:06 2003 Received: from mail.ncifcrf.gov ([::ffff:129.43.100.100]) by adele.gerwinski.de with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18XqG0-0005FG-00 for <gpc@gnu.de>; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 23:07:04 +0100 Received: from strawberry.ncifcrf.gov (strawberry.NCIFCRF.GOV [129.43.6.74]) by mail.ncifcrf.gov (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h0CM5tf01134 for <gpc@gnu.de>; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:05:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (from toms@localhost) by strawberry.ncifcrf.gov (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id RAA03223 for gpc@gnu.de; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:05:55 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Schneider <toms@ncifcrf.gov> Message-Id: <200301122205.RAA03223@strawberry.ncifcrf.gov> Subject: Re: Upper/lower case in identifiers In-Reply-To: <E18WqeO-0006zD-00@adele.gerwinski.de> from "gpc-owner@gnu.de" at "Jan 10, 2003 05:20:08 am" To: gpc@gnu.de (gpc) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:05:55 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL34 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive-Number: 200301/67 X-Sequence-Number: 1483 | I actually think that your existing convention (1st upper, rest | lower) is an excellent way to resolve most things. I am quite sure | I don't have a grasp of the conflicting systematic I also don't understand the conflicts, but this rule is painful. If I name a variable 'something' then I expect to be able to search the error messages for 'something' but of course it got changed to 'Something'. So if I want to cut and paste to search for the name in my program, it fails. Why not take the first occurence of a variable as the name to use on all output? Then internally have a table (as others have suggested) mapping the first occurence to the actual one. Flag variables that map to the same word but which are not the same. This way the compiler merely demands consistency, but is 'case insensitive'. Note: only Germans like to capitalize all nouns! Tom Dr. Thomas D. Schneider National Cancer Institute Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 toms@ncifcrf.gov permanent email: toms@alum.mit.edu (use only if first address fails) http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/
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