To most humans, a Rose is a rose is a ROSE. To computers (who are our servants) these are completely different, and we allow them to push their limitations in our faces. Because, the programmer rightly brings to our attention all the illegal, illegitimate, immoral consequences of our wishes. Not to mention that it is too difficult to implement. And would give rise to a race of moron babies who cant chew their own food. A simple hack to the lexical scanner would be to force the comparison to lowercase for key generators. OR allow a prefix that tells the scanner to force the comparison to lowercasee for the next word. Probably might look like a C cast: (lc)sinOSC. This forces the user to give the scanner a clue to when it is allowed to deviate from its strict string matching rule. The (lc) would be a single lexeme. Jim

From: Atte André Jensen Date: August 5, 2006 12:54:35 PM HST To: ChucK Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [chuck-users] A modest proposal (caps). Reply-To: ChucK Users Mailing List

Ge Wang wrote:

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Perhaps the way to go for now is to provide uppercase convention for the native chuck ugen's (SinOsc, Impulse, Gain etc), but also keep the lowercase versions (sinosc, impulse, others) for backward compatibility. It's extra stuff in the namespace for now, but overall that might make more sense. Thoughts?

That sounds fine.

-- peace, love & harmony Atte