Path: csiph.com!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: mac Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Spell checking identifiers Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 16:07:45 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 9 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <20-07-002@comp.compilers> References: <20-06-010@comp.compilers> <20-06-013@comp.compilers> <20-06-017@comp.compilers> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="30668"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: errors, history Posted-Date: 09 Jul 2020 13:12:13 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:2548 > You might not want J1 and J_one in the same program. Similarly, some ancient compiler (Euclid?) had case-insensitive lookup, but required the same capitalization everywhere This was much more important in the days of batch systems, where compilers tried to "correct" your code, because it would be a day before you got another chance. And because student programs couldn't do any damage.