Robert Klemme wrote:
> On 12/02/2010 06:07 PM, Doug Stone wrote:
>> why is it advantageous to be able to distinguish aVariableName from avariablename?
> So you basically ask why Ruby's identifiers are case sensitive.  It's 
> that way in many (most?) programming languages.  I suspect that what to 
> us humans looks like simple (identifying both variants as the same 
> variable) is more difficult for computers: case handling is highly 
> dependent on the encoding used and may actually be difficult to compute.

It's actually impossible. My favorite example:

    def ma¥ÆÝÆ; end
    def masse; end
    
    MASSE  #  Oops. Which one do I mean?

jwm