Any chance for a Case Sensitive checkbox in Preferences?

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:48 am

I know this is an old battle, but
Please, is there any possibility to allow a Case Sensitive source code for variables, etc. just adding a checkbox in the Preferences or in the Compiler Options?

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:21 pm

What's the benefit of case sensitivity? It would be crazy if this code debugged 0:

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HelloWorld.s = "Hello World"
debug Helloworld

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 1:33 pm

Trond wrote:What's the benefit of case sensitivity? It would be crazy if this code debugged 0:
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HelloWorld.s = "Hello World"
debug Helloworld

Sorry, it is a long discussed there in this forum.
I only want to know if there is a plan for this feature, which in the other hand, doesn't affect absolutely to the current status.

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:19 pm

Since it was already changed from case sensitive to case insensitive I seriously doubt that there's plans to change it back.

Sorry, it is a long discussed there in this forum.
I only want to know if there is a plan for this feature

Edit: If you read the discussion you could see that fred said he will not add a switch.

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:46 pm

Trond wrote:Since it was already changed from case sensitive to case insensitive I seriously doubt that there's plans to change it back.

Change it back? For sure that is not interesting!

Trond wrote:fred said he will not add a switch.

Well, then lets invite fr34k to do it.

EDIT: Besides of it will not change anything of the current situation, it will cost only some minutes to the PB team.

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:54 pm

Psychophanta wrote:
Trond wrote:fred said he will not add a switch.
Well, then lets invite fr34k to do it.
EDIT: Besides of it will not change anything of the current situation, it will cost only some minutes to the PB team.

Ummm... freak can add as many checkboxes in the preferences as he wants, but they still won't do anything until fred changes the compiler. It's not the IDE that controls case sensitivity.

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:47 pm

Trond wrote:It's not the IDE that controls case sensitivity.

Agree, but the interpreter changes would take just some minutes to be done imho, don't?

Post by **freak** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:08 am

> Agree, but the interpreter changes would take just some minutes to be done imho, don't?

I always find it funny when people who have absolutely no idea about how much
work is behind these kinds of things just go ahead and assume that it can't be more than some minutes

Question: If it all just takes minutes, why have we been at this project for years already !?

And no, it will not be changed.
Not because of any time issues. Its simply a matter of language design.

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:25 am

Come here and let me hug you.

No case sensitivity. Thanks.

(I didn't go 'basic' because I like to look for superfluous problems such as case bugs.)

Applaud applaud!

Horay horay!

Fred for President! Fr34k as his running mate!

World hegemony! Let's take control over our little corner of the galaxy! No, let's do better than that, PureBasic should be the number one of our universe! And other universes too, whilst we're at it!

<< insert little pause >>

Hmm, looks I got carried away. A little.

Chrono Syndrome · Post by **Chrono Syndrome** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:29 am

First time, since PB4 release, when i like FS-team...