From: David Mankin (mankin@colossus.mathcs.rhodes.edu)
Date: 7 Aug 98, 14:31 EST
From: David Mankin <mankin@colossus.mathcs.rhodes.edu> Subject: Re: "bind" or "Bind"? At 9:37 AM -0400 8/6/98, Vincent Darley wrote: >Use 'Bind'. They're the same, 'bind' is there for backwards compatbility. >This and a few other commands were renamed to remove the possibility of >conflict when Alpha upgrades to newer versions of Tcl and to make code >maintenance easier for those of us who use some cdoe with both alpha and >Tk. > >-- Vince. Very interesting. I thought that Tcl code was case insensitive. I guess that shows my ignorance. The reason I thought this, though, was that the syntax highlighting in Alpha is case insensitive (which I find very annoying since it doesn't help catch typos like the correct highlighting would). When I complained a couple versions ago, Pete explained that it was because some languages need case insensitive highlighting. I guess I assumed he meant Tcl. Is there any way to make the keyword highlighting case sensitive, maybe by an extra flag to the command that sets up a mode's keywords (so as not to break compatibility with the old modes)? Perhaps this can be done when the code falls into Vince's hands, if it can't be done in Tcl. So, I guess you can consider this a feature request. Thanks, -David