case sensitivity

Jim Giles jlg at lanl.gov
Thu Apr 27 05:21:19 AEST 1989


>From article <124200014 at inmet>, by dokos at inmet:
> The "telephone test" is mentioned on p.21 of Kernighan & Plauger's
> "Elements of Programming Style". It probably did not originate with
> them - they surround it with quotation marks too.

They only apply it to reading boolean expressions too.  This is a very
narrow interpretation of the "telephone test", and I agree with them
that it may be one of the few contexts where the "telephone test" is
really very valuable.



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