case sensitivity

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Sun Apr 23 10:22:59 AEST 1989


In article <4402 at goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones at megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>I determined then, that if I ever write my dream-language, it's identifiers
>at least will pass the telephone test.

The "telephone test" seems no more relevant for programming language
design than it is for the validity of English grammar.  Your quoted
sentence passes the "telephone test" despite its erroneous use of the
contraction "it's" for the possessive pronoun "its".



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