Re: [VOTE] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants

From: Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 16:18:48 +0000
Subject: Re: [VOTE] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants
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Hi Nikita, I'm a terrible person for only bringing this up now (I apologise for not following the list as closely as I used to), but one reason case-insensitive constants are maybe useful is they leave open the possibility of being able to access functions as values in future: like some constants, function names are case-insensitive, and a fallback could be added to constant accesses to return a closure of the function with the same name if no constant is found. Of course, removing case-insensitive constants wouldn't preclude such a feature, just make it a little more annoying to implement, so this is not really a significant reason to vote against. To that end, I'll vote in favour of this deprecation. Thanks! -- Andrea Faulds https://ajf.me/

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