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From: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Alternative Structures
Message-ID: <456@mako.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 13:21:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 17 13:21:40 1984
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In article <8900018@uiucdcsb.UUCP> wsmith@uiucdcsb.UUCP writes:
>Is there any reason that case can not be used to contain semantic
>information? ... For example, all identifiers would have to begin with an
>upper case letter and the rest of the identifier would be lower case.

Smalltalk style uses this very construct for global (vs local) object
identifiers.  This maps nicely to the English (not english) language concept
of proper nouns and common nouns.  But alas, this style is merely a
convention, and is not enforced by the compiler.
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