C# case sensitive or not

[Finn Stampe Mikkelsen]

Hi

I'm totally new to C#, but have worked a bit with VB.NET...

trying to migrate to C#, i find one thing particular anoying... The case
sensitivity of C# or at least my C# environment of Visual Studio. Can this
be disabled??

I mean, it's hard enough to learn a new language, but to also remember that
listBox is spelled exactly like that with all small letter, but for the
capital B. And if not written like that i get an error...

Pse. help... if possible

/Finn

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Der er 10 slags mennesker - Dem som forstår binær og dem som ikke gør.
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don't.
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tuhen

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C# is case - sensitive, just like Javascript, Java, C++ and the UNIX
operating system. Get over it.

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"Finn Stampe Mikkelsen" wrote:

Hi

I'm totally new to C#, but have worked a bit with VB.NET...

trying to migrate to C#, i find one thing particular anoying... The case
sensitivity of C# or at least my C# environment of Visual Studio. Can this
be disabled??

I mean, it's hard enough to learn a new language, but to also remember that
listBox is spelled exactly like that with all small letter, but for the
capital B. And if not written like that i get an error...

Pse. help... if possible

/Finn

--
Der er 10 slags mennesker - Dem som forstr binr og dem som ikke gr.
There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary ant those who
don't.
Es gibt 10 arten von menschen. Die die binr verstehen bzw. die die es nicht
tuhen

[Liz]

"Finn Stampe Mikkelsen" <st****@city.dkwrote in message
news:B6**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hi

I'm totally new to C#, but have worked a bit with VB.NET...

trying to migrate to C#, i find one thing particular anoying... The case
sensitivity of C# or at least my C# environment of Visual Studio. Can this
be disabled??

I mean, it's hard enough to learn a new language, but to also remember
that listBox is spelled exactly like that with all small letter, but for
the capital B. And if not written like that i get an error...

Pse. help... if possible

lol .. how do you deal with things like bad weather, war, greed, hunger ?
look, I'll get this case-sensitivity thing fixed for you ...

[Michael S]

Hehe.

I've been working in Delphi a lot,
and one of the key features missing;
was to be able to turn case-sens ON

- Michael Starberg
"Finn Stampe Mikkelsen" <st****@city.dkwrote in message
news:B6**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hi

I'm totally new to C#, but have worked a bit with VB.NET...

trying to migrate to C#, i find one thing particular anoying... The case
sensitivity of C# or at least my C# environment of Visual Studio. Can this
be disabled??

I mean, it's hard enough to learn a new language, but to also remember
that listBox is spelled exactly like that with all small letter, but for
the capital B. And if not written like that i get an error...

Pse. help... if possible

/Finn

--
Der er 10 slags mennesker - Dem som forstår binær og dem som ikke gør.
There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary ant those who
don't.
Es gibt 10 arten von menschen. Die die binär verstehen bzw. die die es
nicht tuhen

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I HATE VB's case insensitivity.

VB6 would automatically change the case of identifiers to what it thought
was the correct case - ugh! Does VB .Net still do this?

Case sensitivity allows a language to be a bit more expressive. That fact
that VB does not have it is just another demonstration of why it is for
kiddies.

Let the language wars commence!

"Finn Stampe Mikkelsen" wrote:

Hi

I'm totally new to C#, but have worked a bit with VB.NET...

trying to migrate to C#, i find one thing particular anoying... The case
sensitivity of C# or at least my C# environment of Visual Studio. Can this
be disabled??

I mean, it's hard enough to learn a new language, but to also remember that
listBox is spelled exactly like that with all small letter, but for the
capital B. And if not written like that i get an error...

Pse. help... if possible

/Finn

--
Der er 10 slags mennesker - Dem som forstr binr og dem som ikke gr.
There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary ant those who
don't.
Es gibt 10 arten von menschen. Die die binr verstehen bzw. die die es nicht
tuhen

[sloan]

C# is case sensitive.

It's a discipline, one you'll quickly learn.

.........

I am thankful there is not a "disable case sensitivity" "feature" for C#.
My opinion is that case insensitive code is ugly.

"Finn Stampe Mikkelsen" <st****@city.dkwrote in message
news:B6**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hi

I'm totally new to C#, but have worked a bit with VB.NET...

trying to migrate to C#, i find one thing particular anoying... The case
sensitivity of C# or at least my C# environment of Visual Studio. Can this
be disabled??

I mean, it's hard enough to learn a new language, but to also remember
that listBox is spelled exactly like that with all small letter, but for
the capital B. And if not written like that i get an error...

Pse. help... if possible

/Finn

--
Der er 10 slags mennesker - Dem som forstår binær og dem som ikke gør.
There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary ant those who
don't.
Es gibt 10 arten von menschen. Die die binär verstehen bzw. die die es
nicht tuhen

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Alun Harford <de*****@alunharford.co.ukwrote:

which, ultimately, wastes a lot of time and strains a lot of eyes; I cannot
even begin to imagine a sensible rationale for case-sensitivity

Well I read that as "set the local variable networkPackectsPerSecond to
the value of the property NetworkPackectsPerSecond"

Exactly - and I prefer that to having to use prefixes and things to
indicate what's a variable, just because the language isn't capable of
differentiating things that a human clearly can.

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Adrian wrote:

Case sensitivity allows a language to be a bit more expressive. That fact
that VB does not have it is just another demonstration of why it is for
kiddies.

Are you a master if the two languages for kiddies called Ada and PL/I ?

:-)

Arne

[Liz]

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk***@pobox.comwrote in message
news:MP********************@msnews.microsoft.com.. .

Alun Harford <de*****@alunharford.co.ukwrote:

which, ultimately, wastes a lot of time and strains a lot of eyes; I
cannot
even begin to imagine a sensible rationale for case-sensitivity

Well I read that as "set the local variable networkPackectsPerSecond to
the value of the property NetworkPackectsPerSecond"

Exactly - and I prefer that to having to use prefixes and things to
indicate what's a variable, just because the language isn't capable of
differentiating things that a human clearly can.

is it really a significant burden to write:

networkPackectsPerSecond = _networkPackectsPerSecond
-- instead of --
networkPackectsPerSecond = NetworkPackectsPerSecond

which do you suppose you could recognize more quickly in a well-controlled
laboratory test?

Humans can also (generally) read instructions in 6 pt type on medicine
bottles but sometimes they read it wrong and get sick or die

this IS a language that won't let you use pointers we're talking about ...
seems a bit inconsistent in approach to me

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Liz wrote:

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk***@pobox.comwrote in message
news:MP********************@msnews.microsoft.com.. .

>Exactly - and I prefer that to having to use prefixes and things to
indicate what's a variable, just because the language isn't capable of
differentiating things that a human clearly can.

is it really a significant burden to write:

networkPackectsPerSecond = _networkPackectsPerSecond
-- instead of --
networkPackectsPerSecond = NetworkPackectsPerSecond

which do you suppose you could recognize more quickly in a well-controlled
laboratory test?

Humans can also (generally) read instructions in 6 pt type on medicine
bottles but sometimes they read it wrong and get sick or die

this IS a language that won't let you use pointers we're talking about ...
seems a bit inconsistent in approach to me

I think underscore is a bad example - that can actually also
be missed in certain fonts & displays.

I would also prefer programming languages to be case insensitive.

But there are not much point in this discussion.

Someone decided that C# should follow the C++ and Java tradition.

It is 100% sure that it will never be changed. It would break a
lot of code.

Learn to live with it.

Arne

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Liz <li*@tiredofspam.comwrote:

Exactly - and I prefer that to having to use prefixes and things to
indicate what's a variable, just because the language isn't capable of
differentiating things that a human clearly can.

is it really a significant burden to write:

networkPackectsPerSecond = _networkPackectsPerSecond
-- instead of --
networkPackectsPerSecond = NetworkPackectsPerSecond

I find the readability of the first to be less. The extra underscore
gets in the way of my mental reading.

which do you suppose you could recognize more quickly in a well-controlled
laboratory test?

Humans can also (generally) read instructions in 6 pt type on medicine
bottles but sometimes they read it wrong and get sick or die

this IS a language that won't let you use pointers we're talking about ...

Not a good choice of example, seeing as C# *does* let you use pointers.

seems a bit inconsistent in approach to me

It's entirely consistent with C#'s syntax approach being the same as
Java, C, C++.

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[Liz]

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk***@pobox.comwrote in message
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Liz <li*@tiredofspam.comwrote:

>this IS a language that won't let you use pointers we're talking about
...

Not a good choice of example, seeing as C# *does* let you use pointers.

>seems a bit inconsistent in approach to me

It's entirely consistent with C#'s syntax approach being the same as
Java, C, C++.

c'mon, Jon, you get the gist of what I'm saying: C# is heavily biased
towards a paternalistic protect yourself (or your employer) from your own
stupidity approach .. which is not at all consistent with C/C++ ...

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Liz <li*@tiredofspam.comwrote:

It's entirely consistent with C#'s syntax approach being the same as
Java, C, C++.

c'mon, Jon, you get the gist of what I'm saying: C# is heavily biased
towards a paternalistic protect yourself (or your employer) from your own
stupidity approach .. which is not at all consistent with C/C++ ...

Well, it has avoided some (but not all) of the ways of shooting you in
the foot that C and C++ have. But then, I don't remember the last time
that I *did* shoot myself in the foot with C# due to case sensitivity.

If you don't trust yourself not to write:

Foo = Foo;

instead of

Foo = foo;

then you can still use prefixes if you *want* to.

I'm personally glad that C# is case-sensitive.

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