Matt Whiting wrote:
wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:

Care to name any programming language that cares about the spelling
of user defined identifiers?

COBOL, FORTRAN, C, BASIC, ALGOL, assembly language ... most of them. The
spelling has to be consistent, it has to be different from any reserved words,
it sometimes has to be unique within a certain number of characters and/or
free of case-insensitive duplication, and so on. The spelling may also be
restricted by data type (such as the implicit typing of FORTRAN based on the
first letter of an identifier).

Which part of

"To prevent anal nitpicking, a user defined identifier is a name
invented by the programmer that does not conflict with any reserved
words or identifiers and contains only alphabetic characters (to
avoid an endless discussion about languages that may or may not
allow characters like "-" in an identifier).

And, to make it crystal clear, I'm not talking about spelling it
differently after it has been defined."

Then you aren't talking about spelling period; either in the English
language or a programming language.

I never was.

MX says spelling is important when programming.

I say you have to use reserved words correctly (which requires no
knowledge of English even though almost all reservered words are
English) and have to be consistent in user defined identifier usage.

The ability to spell English dictionary words is not a requirement to
be able to program.


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Jim Pennino

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