Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!l14g2000pro.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: lewbloch Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: CLI Java Glitch Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:12:34 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <4dffe2ea$0$57121$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.6.6.6 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1308932917 8825 127.0.0.1 (24 Jun 2011 16:28:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:28:37 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l14g2000pro.googlegroups.com; posting-host=127.6.6.6; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: ASELCHRU X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.91 Safari/534.30,gzip(gfe) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5648 Michael Wojcik wrote: > Agreed. And "case-insensitive" becomes problematic when you move > outside European alphabets, which is another argument against it. (If It's a problem in European languages, too. Should "GrossKopf" and "Gro=DFKopf" be considered the same class? If not, to which one should "GroSSKopf" correspond in a case-insensitive system? Java sees these as three different identifiers. How would a case- insensitive system support a system with classes "GrossKopf", "Gro=DFKopf" and "GroSSKopf" all in the same package? -- Lew