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0 pointspilif13y ago0 comments

True for languages which are case-sensitive.

Other languages like PHP (partially), BASIC or Pascal are case insensitive, so lookup has to be done case-insensitively which means that case has to be normalized, so transforming case of identifier becomes necessary. If it can't be done consistently, that's a problem.

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klmr13y ago

So you use a culture-invariant locale for parsing. Still not a problem.

pilifOP13y ago

How do you lowercase in a culture-invariant locale? Or do you mean english?

mikeash13y ago

No matter how you do it, a class name should always match when looked up with an identical string.

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