Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!hjm
From: hjm@cernvax.UUCP (hjm)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Need filter to raise keywords to uppercase
Message-ID: <741@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 88 15:56:08 GMT
References: <898@acornrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: hjm@cernvax.UUCP (Hubert Matthews)
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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In article <898@acornrc.UUCP> bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman) writes:
>Does anyone have a filter which will raise all Modula-2 keywords to
>uppercase?  I've just acquired a bunch of code which was obviously
>meant for some bizarre compiler which accepts keywords in lowercase.

I must confess to liking Modula-2, but I must also confess to disliking
intensely any language which dictates coding style, namely where to use
upper-case and where to use lower-case letters.  The last language which
did that was FORTRAN-77, which probably isn't very popular with people
who subscribe to this newsgroup.

Is this case restriction (which is, after all, entirely arbitary and without
any valid engineering backing) in the standard?  If so, I hope that there
will be lots of 'bizarre compilers' available for people like me who prefer
to choose for themselves.  After all, CaSe SENsItiViTy Is a bORE ...

	Hubert Matthews