I do have a case-insensitive background (cut my teeth
on PC-DOS 3.3), but while the case sensitivity in my
ext3 filesystem occasionally bugs me, I have never had
any trouble with case-sensitive variable names. Most
of the computer languages I have used (with the notable
exception of BASIC, which admittedly I did use quite a
bit) are case-sensitive, so I naturally think of
variables as case-sensitive.
But your example is good nonetheless. I said that
the scenerio seems unlikely to me, but unlikely is not
the same as silly (which is what I formerly thought
of the idea, having seen numerous flawed examples and
no good ones).
Other things (such as Taint mode) are higher on my
list, but I now intend at some point to teach myself
to use strict.
It's odd, I came into this thread expecting not
to have my mind changed, and it (at least partly) was.
I went into the discussion about exception-handling
expecting to have someone show me what I was missing,
and having read the best explanations offered I'm now
more sure than ever that I was right about that one.
--jonadab
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