mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (03/16/88)
>Another important consideration is how much existing code becomes >non-conforming by a proposed standard and the amount of trouble to make the >code conform. If case sensitivity becomes standard, there will be many programs >which have used case insensitivity to make them more readable will no >longer work. This will require a massive effort to make them work and will >certainly introduce a large number of very subtle bugs (VARa vs VarA). I don't see how this can possibly be so. IF they are case-insensitive, use an editor to make them all one case. They should still work! Then of course you have the problem that all the string literals are one case, but fixing that can't introduce bugs if you type well.