On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Berend Hasselman wrote:
I have noticed that Finding variables does a case insensitive find.
However in genr variable names appear to be case sensitive.
I feel that it is not good practice to use case for distinguishing between
variables.
I prefer mY and MY to refer to the same entity and to use case for purely
textual purposes.
When importing data, one may not always have control over the case of
variable names.
So I would like to request
- an option to change the case of all variable names (lower and upper)
- (and/or) for variable names to be treated case insensitively.
I don't mean at all to be confrontational here, but I feel exactly the
opposite way. In my eyes, the only reason why most people think of
uppercase/lowercase characters as perfect substitutes is 25 years of
brainwashing by a rudimentary operating system that I won't mention.
Of course, I'm more a C guy than a FORTRAN guy... :-)
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti