> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Ivan Prenosil [mailto:Ivan.Prenosil@...]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 24. März 2005 15:14
> An: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Betreff: Re: [firebird-support] Use of double quoted names in Firebird
>
> If you write "avan", I will not know what you mean, but if
> you write "ivan", "Ivan", "IVAN", I guess I will recognize
> all of them.

I'll recognize them, because I is uppercased for i. You're from czech republic, I'm from german, we both can recognize those letters. However, as Kjell stated, in *his* language (swedish), v and w do mean the same, as i does mean the same as I for us. You see my point? One rule says "i equals I", but no rule says "v equals w", only because americans are not used to think about v equaling to w. What about kyrillic? What about eastern languages? What about those people in india? Do they even know about the concept of lower- vs. uppercase?

> > People who are actually not able to remember the case of
> their identifiers ...
>
> But its not only "their" identifiers, you can use lot of 3rd
> party libraries, each one using its own "rules", one can have
> mehod "doClose", the other "DoClose", and I personally have
> more important things to remember than those _cosmetic_ variants.
>

But who is in error? The language which forces case-sensitive identifiers, or the library makers which do not adhere to naming conventions? Rather than letting the parser forgive about case, it would make sense to force a unified naming scheme.

Regards, Alex