I was wrong... I had never typed anything in a case sensitive way.
Wow, who knew.  Well, Laurent did.  

:-)


W. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Reeve [mailto:jayreeve@...] 
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 2:11 PM
To: futurebasic@...
Subject: Re: [FB] FB variable syntax

Not that it's important, but just for curiosity's sake I pulled the  
1992 FutureBasic Reference off the shelf and was surprised to find  
this under "Variable name rules":

_caseInsensitive	This option tells the compiler to consider the variable
			"Interest" and "INTEREST" to be the same variable.
			Otherwise they are different.

So Laurent was correct, but so were Waveerly's and my recollections,  
because I'm sure I always had that compiler option set. I suspect it  
was a default setting, so most of us never recognized that FB was, at  
heart, case sensitive.

   e-e
   =J= a  y
    "

On Jul 9, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Pete Beaumont wrote:

>
> On 10/07/2009, at 12:12 AM, Edwards, Waverly wrote:
>
>> I go back to the ZBasic days and I do not recall ZB or any
>> dialect of BASIC that I've ever used to be case sensitive.
>>
>>
>> W.
>
> Same here
>
> Pete...
>
> (Still got the ZB disks floating around somewhere......)
>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brian Stevens [mailto:bstevens33@...]
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 10:24 PM
>> To: futurebasic@...
>> Subject: Re: [FB] re:Private OFFList: FB variable syntax
>>
>>
>> On Jul 8, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Laurent Siebenmann wrote:
>>
>>>> I don't expect you will get much traction with this idea.
>>>> You will  instead get reasons why it is a bad idea.
>>
>>
>> Not from the team!  You will notice FB code from the team is written
>> as if case-sensitive. However, FB is not written for the team but the
>> whole FB community.
>>
>> Brian S
>>
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